Where does “tenoriukulele” come from?
tenoriukulele (Finnish) comes from Finnish ukulele, from English ukelele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from Hawaiian ʻuku, from Proto-Polynesian kutu, from Proto-Oceanic kutu, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian kutu, from Austronesian *kutu — louse insect.
tenoriukulele (Finnish): tenor ukulele
Definitions
- tenor ukulele
Ancestry of “tenoriukulele”, step by step
tenoriukulele traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ukulele
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ukulele | ukulele |
| 2 | English | ukelele | Alternative form of ukulele |
| 3 | Hawaiian | ʻukulele | A small four-stringed guitar, an ukulele |
| 4 | Hawaiian | ʻuku | louse, flea |
| 5 | Proto-Polynesian | kutu | louse |
| 6 | Proto-Oceanic | kutu | louse generic |
| 7 | Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian | kutu | — |
| 8 | Austronesian | *kutu | — |
| 9 | Proto-Austronesian | *kuCux | louse insect |
via Finnish tenori
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tenori | tenor |
| 2 | Swedish | tenor | — |
| 3 | Italian | tenore | tone; tenor; standard |
| 4 | Latin | tenor | a holding on, continuance, course, career,... |
| 5 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |