Where does “uhrialttari” come from?
uhrialttari (Finnish) comes from Finnish uhri, from Swedish offer, from Old Norse offr, from Middle Low German offer, from Latin offerō, from Latin ob-, from Latin obolus, from Ancient Greek ὀβολός — to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing.
uhrialttari (Finnish): sacrificial altar
Definitions
- sacrificial altar
Ancestry of “uhrialttari”, step by step
uhrialttari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish uhri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | uhri | victim, mark, stiff, pigeon, patsy; sacrifice,... |
| 2 | Swedish | offer | sacrifice; victim |
| 3 | Old Norse | offr | an offering |
| 4 | Middle Low German | offer | — |
| 5 | Latin | offerō | to bring before or bring to, present, offer, bestow, show, place before, exhibit, expose |
| 6 | Latin | ob- | towards; against |
| 7 | Latin | obolus | obolus (Greek coin) |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ὀβολός | obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | ὀβελός | a spit, rod; a horizontal line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | βέλος | missile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷélHos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷelH- | to throw, reach, pierce; to hit by throwing |
via Finnish alttari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | alttari | altar |
| 2 | Old Swedish | altari | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | altari | altar |
| 4 | Old Saxon | altari | — |
| 5 | Latin | altāre | altar, fitting for burnt offerings |
| 6 | Latin | adoleō | to emit an odor, smell |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |