Where does “toffeekarkki” come from?
toffeekarkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish karkki, from Finnish karamelli, from Swedish karamell, from German Karamell, from French caramel, from Spanish caramelo, from Portuguese caramelo, from Latin calamellus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
toffeekarkki (Finnish): toffee sweet, toffee candy
Definitions
- toffee sweet, toffee candy
Ancestry of “toffeekarkki”, step by step
toffeekarkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish karkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | karkki | sweet, candy |
| 2 | Finnish | karamelli | sweet, candy; caramel |
| 3 | Swedish | karamell | sweet, caramel; confection made of melted and... |
| 4 | German | Karamell | caramel |
| 5 | French | caramel | caramel, fudge |
| 6 | Spanish | caramelo | candy; caramel |
| 7 | Portuguese | caramelo | caramel; candy made of caramel; any candy |
| 8 | Latin | calamellus | A little reed or pen |
| 9 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 10 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Finnish toffee
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | toffee | toffee |
| 2 | English | toffee | A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard |
| 3 | English | Taffy | A Welshman |
| 4 | Welsh | Dafydd | David |
| 5 | Middle Welsh | Dauyð | — |
| 6 | Latin | David | David |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | Δαυίδ | David |
| 8 | Hebrew | דָּוִד | — |