Where does “porslinstron” come from?
porslinstron (Swedish) comes from Swedish porslin, from French porcelaine, from Old French pourcelaine, from Italian porcellana, from Italian porcella, from Italian porca, from Latin porca, from Esperanto porka — passed , crossed.
porslinstron (Swedish): a porcelain throne, a toilet
Definitions
- a porcelain throne, a toilet
Ancestry of “porslinstron”, step by step
porslinstron traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish porslin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | porslin | porcelain, china |
| 2 | French | porcelaine | cowrie, a mollusk of the family Cypraeidae, or... |
| 3 | Old French | pourcelaine | Cowrie, cockle, or similar univalve shell; The... |
| 4 | Italian | porcellana | porcelain, china; third-person singular present... |
| 5 | Italian | porcella | female equivalent of porcello; slut, bitch, goer |
| 6 | Italian | porca | the ridge between two furrows; balk; sow; A... |
| 7 | Latin | porca | sow; the ridge between two furrows; a balk |
| 8 | Esperanto | porka | porcine |
| 9 | Esperanto | porko | pig |
| 10 | Latin | porcus | a piglet, a young pig; a pig, hog; Short for... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | porkos | pig |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pórḱos | piglet |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | perḱ- | colored; motley; to open, rip up |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |