Where does “vaniljasokeri” come from?
vaniljasokeri (Finnish) comes from Finnish sokeri, from Swedish socker, from Old Swedish soker, from Middle Low German sucker, from Middle High German zucker, from Old High German zuckar, from Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر — gravel, boulder; boulder; gravel.
vaniljasokeri (Finnish): vanilla sugar sugar with vanilla beans or sugar mixed with vanilla extract
Definitions
- vanilla sugar sugar with vanilla beans or sugar mixed with vanilla extract
Ancestry of “vaniljasokeri”, step by step
vaniljasokeri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish sokeri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sokeri | sugar |
| 2 | Swedish | socker | sugar; sucrose in the form of small crystals;... |
| 3 | Old Swedish | soker | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | sucker | sugar |
| 5 | Middle High German | zucker | sugar |
| 6 | Old High German | zuckar | — |
| 7 | Italian | zucchero | sugar; first-person singular indicative present... |
| 8 | Arabic | سُكَّر | — |
| 9 | Persian | شکر | sugar |
| 10 | Middle Persian | škl | sugar |
| 11 | Sanskrit | शर्करा | gravel, grit, pebbles, shingle, gravelly mould or... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | śárkaraH | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | ćárkaraH | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱorkeh₂ | gravel, boulder; boulder; gravel |
via Finnish vanilja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vanilja | vanilla |
| 2 | French | vanille | vanilla |
| 3 | Spanish | vainilla | vanilla; vanilla sex; ladyfinger |
| 4 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 5 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 7 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |