Where does “dentaalihygienia” come from?
dentaalihygienia (Finnish) comes from Finnish dentaalinen, from Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns, from Italian dente, from Latin dens, from Proto-Italic dents, from Proto-Indo-European h₃dónts, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ed- — to eat.
dentaalihygienia (Finnish): dental hygiene
Definitions
- dental hygiene
Ancestry of “dentaalihygienia”, step by step
dentaalihygienia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish dentaalinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | dentaalinen | dental |
| 2 | Latin | dentālis | bearing or furnished with small toothlike projections |
| 3 | Latin | dēns | a tooth |
| 4 | Italian | dente | tooth; cog, prong |
| 5 | Latin | dens | tooth; a spike, prong, or any tooth-like... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | dents | tooth |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃dónts | tooth |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |