Päivän etymologinen tietoisku

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Lilja

Borrowed from Old Swedish lilia, from Old Norse lilja, from Medieval Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), from Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri) (compare Sahidic Coptic ϩⲣⲏⲣⲉ (hrēre)), from Demotic (ḥrry), from Egyptian
(ḥrrt, “flower”). Compare modern Swedish lilja.

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Siesta

From Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour, noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”). Cognate with Portuguese sesta.

Noon

From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

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Yuri (eli Yrjö)

From Russian Ю́рий (Júrij, “George”). Doublet of George.

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From Old East Slavic Гюрги (Gjurgi), vernacular form of Георгий (Georgij).

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios, “farmer, earth-worker”).

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From γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer”) +‎ -ιος (-ios).

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From γῆ (gê, “earth”) +‎ ἔργον (érgon, “work”) +‎ -ος (-os).

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Vaiva

From Proto-Finnic *vaiva, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *waiwō (“woe, misery, pain”).

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From Proto-Indo-European *wai.

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Might have been from an earlier *uwáy (“to see oneself”), which has been preserved in Hittite [script needed] (uwai) and Sanskrit उवे (uvé). The form *wáy would then represent a later innovation.

Derived terms
*waylos (“howler; wolf”)

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Lilja

Borrowed from Old Swedish lilia, from Old Norse lilja, from Medieval Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), from Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri) (compare Sahidic Coptic ϩⲣⲏⲣⲉ (hrēre)), from Demotic (ḥrry), from Egyptian
(ḥrrt, “flower”). Compare modern Swedish lilja.

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Cancer

Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), by metathesis from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab”); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre.

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Karja

From Proto-Finnic *karja (compare Estonian kari, Livonian kōŗa), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”) (compare Swedish här (“land army”), German Heer (“army”)). The original sense "army, forces" may survive in Karjala.

Harjaz

From Proto-Indo-European *kóryos (“war, troops”), from *ker-. Cognate with Old Irish cuire (“troop, host, company; muster”), Lithuanian kãras, kãrias (“war”), Ancient Greek κοίρανος (koíranos, “ruler, commander, military leader”), Old Persian 𐎼𐎢 (r-u /kāra/, “people of war, army”).

Possibly attested as a vocative or combining form hari on Negau B, a helmet dated to 450–350 BCE (although the inscription may have been added much later with a terminus ante quem of 50 BCE, when the hoard was buried). First attested with certainty as runic harja (2nd century, Vimose), although the latter inscription may be considered to postdate Proto-Germanic.

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Keuhko

Most likely an obscure derivative of kevyt, keveä (“light”). For semantic parallels, see English lights (“lungs”), Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje, “lung”), Northern Saami geahpis (“lung”).

Lung

From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“not heavy, agile, nimble”); compare *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish lunge, Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).

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Cock

From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.

Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.

Pillicock elikkäs kukkopilli

From Middle English pilkoc, equivalent to an uncertain prefix + cock (“a male chicken; slang term for a penis”). Compare the earlier surname Pylcock etc., as well as pillock, Scots pillie (“a penis”), Jutland regional Danish piller and pillerkok (“a penis”), and regional Norwegian pill (“a penis”).

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James

The English New Testament form of Jacob, from Middle English James, from Old French James, from Vulgar Latin Iacomus, spoken and altered pronunciation of Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב‎ (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “heel-grabber”), from עָקֵב‎ (ʿāqēḇ, “heel”). . Doublet of Diego and Jacob.

Tiberius

From Latin Tiberius, literally 'Of the Tiber', from Tiberis, the river Tiber. Also note Faliscan equivalent *Tiferios. The name is mistaken by some to be of Etruscan origin but note the borrowed variants, Thefarie (from Faliscan) and Teperi (from Latin).

Tiberis

Suggested origins include:

From Proto-Italic *Tiβeris. Cognate with Faliscan *Tiferis (cf. Etruscan praenomen Thefarie < Faliscan *Tiferios '(He) from the Tiber', equivalent to Latin Tiberius).
From Celtic *dubros (“water”). See Dover.
From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to flow, to melt”), found in hydronyms. This could correspond to the Umbrian counterpart Tifernum Tiberinum with the eastern Italic sound shift bh > f.

Kirk

From kirk (“church”). Doublet of Church.

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Either from Old Norse kirkja (Middle English kyrke) or Old English cirice.

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from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, from Byzantine Greek κυριακόν (δόμα) (kuriakón (dóma), “Lord's (house)”), from Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).

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Kihlat

From Proto-Finnic *kihla, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *gīslaz (“hostage”).

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Borrowed from Proto-Celtic *gēstlos (“hostage, pledge”) (compare Old Irish gíall "human pledge, hostage", Welsh gwystl "pledge, pawn, hostage"), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ- (“to desire, wait for”).

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condom

Unknown. Many speculations exist. Possibly derived from Italian guantone, from guanto (“a glove”)

guanto

From Old Occitan, from Old French guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove, mitten”), from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰnú- (“glove”), from the root *wendʰ- (“to wind, wrap”). Cognates include French gant, Catalan guant, Sicilian nguantu and Spanish guante.

dildo

Unclear; possibly an alteration of Italian diletto (“delight”) or English diddle. Compare the spelling dil doul, found in e.g. The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul, a song in the library of Samuel Pepys.

diddle

From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), duddle (“to totter”) (17th century); perhaps influenced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803). Meaning "to have sex with" is from the 19th century; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.

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condom

Unknown. Many speculations exist. Possibly derived from Italian guantone, from guanto (“a glove”)

guanto

From Old Occitan, from Old French guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove, mitten”), from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰnú- (“glove”), from the root *wendʰ- (“to wind, wrap”). Cognates include French gant, Catalan guant, Sicilian nguantu and Spanish guante.

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