Where does “untuvatäkki” come from?
untuvatäkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish untuva, from Finnish untua, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from English thou, from English thousand, from Middle English thousend, from Old English þūsend — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
untuvatäkki (Finnish): eiderdown
Definitions
- eiderdown
Ancestry of “untuvatäkki”, step by step
untuvatäkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish untuva
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | untuva | down |
| 2 | Finnish | untua | to get tired, to fatigue |
| 3 | Finnish | -tua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Ido | tu | you singular, thou |
| 5 | English | thou | Nominative singular of ye; To address using the... |
| 6 | English | thousand | A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10 |
| 7 | Middle English | thousend | A thousand; 1000 |
| 8 | Old English | þūsend | thousand |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | þūsundi | thousand |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | þūsundī | a thousand |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | tuHsont- | thousand |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |
via Finnish täkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | täkki | quilt US; duvet, continental quilt UK; doona Australia |
| 2 | Old Swedish | stakker | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | stafkarl | poor beggar |
| 4 | Old Norse | Karl | man |
| 5 | Proto-Norse | ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | karilaz | free man, franklin; little man, young man |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | karaz | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵerh₂- | to grow old, to mature |