Where does “kēl” come from?
kēl (Middle Low German) comes from Old Norse kjǫlr, from Proto-Norse kelu-, from Finnish Kela, from Finnish Kansaneläkelaitos, from Finnish känsä, from Finnish kanssa, from Finnish kansassa, from Finnish kansa — resin.
Ancestry of “kēl”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Norse | kjǫlr | keel |
| 2 | Proto-Norse | kelu- | — |
| 3 | Finnish | Kela | — |
| 4 | Finnish | Kansaneläkelaitos | — |
| 5 | Finnish | känsä | callus |
| 6 | Finnish | kanssa | with; also, too |
| 7 | Finnish | kansassa | — |
| 8 | Finnish | kansa | people; nation |
| 9 | Proto-Finnic | kansa | people, folk |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | hansō | A gathering, summation, mass, quantity, amount; A... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱómsōd | union; gathering; union, gathering |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |