Where does “digitaaliteknologia” come from?
digitaaliteknologia (Finnish) comes from Finnish teknologia, from Finnish tekno-, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
digitaaliteknologia (Finnish): digital technology
Definitions
- digital technology
Ancestry of “digitaaliteknologia”, step by step
digitaaliteknologia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish teknologia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | teknologia | technology; Partitive singular form of... |
| 2 | Finnish | tekno- | techno- |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Finnish digitaalinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | digitaalinen | digital |
| 2 | Latin | digitālis | Of or belonging to the finger |
| 3 | Latin | digitus | a finger, toe, digit; a twig |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | deyḱ- | to point out |