Where does “vaihtopenkki” come from?
vaihtopenkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish penkki, from Old Swedish bænker, from Old Norse benkr, from Proto-Germanic bankiz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeg- — to break.
vaihtopenkki (Finnish): substitutes' bench; players' bench
Definitions
- substitutes' bench; players' bench
Ancestry of “vaihtopenkki”, step by step
vaihtopenkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish penkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | penkki | bench; plant bed |
| 2 | Old Swedish | bænker | bench |
| 3 | Old Norse | benkr | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | bankiz | a raised surface; bulge; hillock; slope; bench |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeg- | to break |
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... |