Where does “verryttelyhousut” come from?
verryttelyhousut (Finnish) comes from Finnish verryttely, from Finnish verrytellä, from Finnish verryttää, from Finnish vertyä, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from Spanish tú, from Latin tuus — power.
verryttelyhousut (Finnish): sweatpants, sweatsuit trousers
Definitions
- sweatpants, sweatsuit trousers
Ancestry of “verryttelyhousut”, step by step
verryttelyhousut traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish verryttely
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | verryttely | warm-up |
| 2 | Finnish | verrytellä | to warm up |
| 3 | Finnish | verryttää | to stretch, to flex, to limber |
| 4 | Finnish | vertyä | to become refreshed, to become flexible |
| 5 | Finnish | -tua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 6 | Ido | tu | you singular, thou |
| 7 | Spanish | tú | you; thou |
| 8 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 9 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 10 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 11 | Polish | tu | here |
| 12 | Polish | być | to be |
| 13 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 14 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 15 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |