Where does “vaihtotori” come from?
vaihtotori (Finnish) comes from Finnish tori, from Old Swedish torgh, from Proto-Brythonic *torx, from Latin torquis, from Latin torqueō, from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- — to turn, spin.
vaihtotori (Finnish): a marketplace where secondhand items are exchanged
Definitions
- a marketplace where secondhand items are exchanged
Ancestry of “vaihtotori”, step by step
vaihtotori traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tori
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tori | market, market square; town square; forum |
| 2 | Old Swedish | torgh | — |
| 3 | Proto-Brythonic | *torx | — |
| 4 | Latin | torquis | chaplet |
| 5 | Latin | torqueō | to spin, whirl, twirl, turn, cause to revolve |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | terkʷ- | to turn, spin |
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... |