Where does “toapapper” come from?
toapapper (Swedish) comes from Swedish töa, from Swedish toalett, from French toilette, from French Toile, from Old French toile, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, from Old Dutch tegela — to cover; pole, stick, beam.
toapapper (Swedish): toilet paper
Definitions
- toilet paper
Ancestry of “toapapper”, step by step
toapapper traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish töa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | töa | to thaw; (of ice and snow): to melt off due to warm weather |
| 2 | Swedish | toalett | toilet; bathroom, a room containing a toilet, but... |
| 3 | French | toilette | toilet; the toilet, lavatory |
| 4 | French | Toile | Web; World Wide Web |
| 5 | Old French | toile | fabric; web |
| 6 | Old French | teile | Alternative form of toile |
| 7 | Latin | tēla | web |
| 8 | Old Dutch | tegela | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | *tigulā | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | tigulǭ | tile; brick |
| 11 | Latin | tēgula | a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex |
| 12 | Latin | tegō | to cover; to clothe |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | tegō | cover |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)teg- | to cover; pole, stick, beam |
via Swedish papper
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | papper | paper; a sheet of paper; a document |
| 2 | Old Norse | pappir | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | pappir | — |
| 4 | Old French | papier | to murmur |
| 5 | Old Catalan | paper | paper sheet material typically used for writing on or printing |
| 6 | Latin | papȳrus | papyrus plant |
| 7 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 8 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 9 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 10 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 11 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |