Where does “yksintanssi” come from?
yksintanssi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.
yksintanssi (Finnish): solitary dance
Definitions
- solitary dance
Ancestry of “yksintanssi”, step by step
yksintanssi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tanssi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tanssi | dance; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Swedish | dans | dance |
| 3 | Old French | dance | dance |
| 4 | Old French | dancier | to dance |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *dantiāre | — |
via Finnish yksin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | yksin | Instructive plural form of yksi; alone |