Where does “alasveto” come from?
alasveto (Finnish) comes from Finnish veto, from Latin veto, from Latin voto, from Proto-Italic wetā(je)-, from Proto-Indo-European weth₂- — to say.
alasveto (Finnish): pull-down
Ancestry of “alasveto”, step by step
alasveto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish veto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | veto | pull; draught/draft of air; stroke of hand, oar... |
| 2 | Latin | veto | I forbid, oppose, veto; I forbid it! I protest! |
| 3 | Latin | voto | dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | wetā(je)- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | weth₂- | to say |
via Finnish alas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | alas | down; downward; down with |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | alas | down, downward |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | ëla | below |
Words derived from “alasveto”