Where does “televisiolupatarkastaja” come from?
televisiolupatarkastaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish televisiolupa, from Finnish televisio, from French télévision, from German Television, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε — resin, gum; to say, speak.
televisiolupatarkastaja (Finnish): television license inspector
Definitions
- television license inspector
Ancestry of “televisiolupatarkastaja”, step by step
televisiolupatarkastaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish televisiolupa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | televisiolupa | television license |
| 2 | Finnish | televisio | television; A television set |
| 3 | French | télévision | television |
| 4 | German | Television | — |
| 5 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 6 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 7 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 18 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 19 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 20 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via Finnish tarkastaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tarkastaja | inspector, supervisor, superintendent; revisor |
| 2 | Finnish | tarkastaa | to check, inspect |
| 3 | Finnish | tarkka | accurate, exact, precise; particular, pedantic,... |
| 4 | Swedish | stärk | strong |
| 5 | Old Swedish | starker | stiff, rigid; steady; strong |
| 6 | Old Norse | sterkr | strong |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | starkuz | stiff; rigid; strong |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | sterkaną | to become stiff, stiffen |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sterg- | rigid, stiff; to love |