Where does “valkosipulileipä” come from?
valkosipulileipä (Finnish) comes from Finnish valkosipuli, from Swedish vitlök, from Swedish lök, from Swedish lokomotiv, from English locomotive, from French locomotif, from Vulgar Latin motivus, from Latin motus — to move.
valkosipulileipä (Finnish): garlic bread
Ancestry of “valkosipulileipä”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | valkosipuli | garlic, "Allium sativum"; garlic |
| 2 | Swedish | vitlök | — |
| 3 | Swedish | lök | onion; a genus of plants. See also "Allium"; the... |
| 4 | Swedish | lokomotiv | a locomotive |
| 5 | English | locomotive | The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches... |
| 6 | French | locomotif | locomotive |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | motivus | moving; stirred; moved |
| 8 | Latin | motus | moved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved;... |
| 9 | Latin | movere | present active infinitive of moveō; second-person... |
| 10 | Latin | moveo | I move, stir, set in motion; I disturb, shake,... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | moweō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | mew- | to move |