Where does “kolymasnäppa” come from?
kolymasnäppa (Swedish) comes from Swedish snäppa, from English snap, from Dutch snappen, from Middle Dutch snappen.
kolymasnäppa (Swedish): a great knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
Definitions
- a great knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
Ancestry of “kolymasnäppa”, step by step
kolymasnäppa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish snäppa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Swedish | snäppa | a bird in the Scolopacidae family |
| 2 | English | snap | A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action... |
| 3 | Dutch | snappen | to get, to understand; to catch in the act |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | snappen | — |
via English Kolyma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Kolyma | An area in the far north-eastern region of Russia; location of Stalinist slave labour camps in the 1930s to 1950s |
| 2 | Russian | Колыма́ | — |