Where does “tonttuilu” come from?
tonttuilu (Finnish) comes from Finnish tonttuilla, from Finnish tonttu, from Finnish tonni, from Swedish ton, from English ton, from French ton, from Old French ton, from Latin tuus — power.
tonttuilu (Finnish): screwing around, fooling around
Definitions
- screwing around, fooling around
Ancestry of “tonttuilu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tonttuilla | to screw around, to fool around |
| 2 | Finnish | tonttu | A miniature mythical humanoid creature believed... |
| 3 | Finnish | tonni | metric ton; grand |
| 4 | Swedish | ton | tonne; tone; tone, shade |
| 5 | English | ton | A unit of weight equal to 2240 pounds or 2000... |
| 6 | French | ton | Your, thy; Tone; Tone, shade |
| 7 | Old French | ton | your |
| 8 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 9 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 10 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 11 | Polish | tu | here |
| 12 | Polish | być | to be |
| 13 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 14 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 15 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |