Where does “vaihtomatto” come from?
vaihtomatto (Finnish) comes from Finnish matto, from Swedish mätta, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa.
vaihtomatto (Finnish): commercial floor mat; a mat maintained and cleaned by a (separate) company such as for storefronts
Definitions
- commercial floor mat; a mat maintained and cleaned by a (separate) company such as for storefronts
Ancestry of “vaihtomatto”, step by step
vaihtomatto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish matto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | matto | carpet, mat, rug; mat; mat, blasting mat |
| 2 | Swedish | mätta | to feed, to fill, to make full, to saturate |
| 3 | Swedish | a | from |
| 4 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 5 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 6 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 7 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 8 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |
via Finnish vaihto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaihto | exchange; swap; shift key |
| 2 | Finnish | vaihtaa | to change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vaihtadak | to change |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |