Where does “pingisracket” come from?

pingisracket (Swedish) comes from Swedish pingis, from Swedish pingpong — ping pong (table tennis).

pingisracket (Swedish): a table tennis racket/bat/paddle

Definitions

  1. a table tennis racket/bat/paddle

Ancestry of “pingisracket”, step by step

pingisracket traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish pingis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishpingistable tennis, ping-pong
2Swedishpingpongping pong (table tennis)

via Swedish racket

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishracketa racket
Every word from Swedish pingpong →Every word from Swedish pingis →