Where does “vatsatanssi” come from?

vatsatanssi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.

vatsatanssi (Finnish): belly dance

Definitions

  1. belly dance

Ancestry of “vatsatanssi”, step by step

vatsatanssi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tanssi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanssidance; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Swedishdansdance
3Old Frenchdancedance
4Old Frenchdancierto dance
5Vulgar Latin*dantiāre—

via Finnish vatsa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvatsastomach
2Proto-Finnicvaccastomach
Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →