English Explanatory Dictionary

Hakkapeliitta

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Finnish light cavalryman during the Thirty Years' War.

Word forms

Hakkapeliitta Hakkapeliittas

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Finnic *hak'at'ak Finnish hakata Proto-Uralic *päŋe Proto-Finnic *pää Finnish pää Finnish päälle Finnish hakkaa päälleder.? Swedish hakkapelit Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsder. Finnish -iitta Finnish hakkapeliittabor. English Hakkapeliitta Borrowed from Finnish hakkapeliitta, probably from the Finnish war cry hakkaa päälle (literally “hack on; hit on”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on H Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary