Where does “edelläkävijäkansa” come from?
edelläkävijäkansa (Finnish) comes from Finnish känsä, from Finnish kanssa, from Finnish kansassa, from Finnish kansa, from Proto-Finnic kansa, from Proto-Germanic hansō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱómsōd, from Proto-Indo-European ḱóm — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
edelläkävijäkansa (Finnish): a nation of pioneers, a pioneering nation
Definitions
- a nation of pioneers, a pioneering nation
Ancestry of “edelläkävijäkansa”, step by step
edelläkävijäkansa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish känsä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | känsä | callus |
| 2 | Finnish | kanssa | with; also, too |
| 3 | Finnish | kansassa | — |
| 4 | Finnish | kansa | people; nation |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | kansa | people, folk |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | hansō | A gathering, summation, mass, quantity, amount; A... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱómsōd | union; gathering; union, gathering |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 10 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 11 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 12 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 13 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 14 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Finnish edelläkävijä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | edelläkävijä | forerunner, pioneer; vanguard |
| 2 | Finnish | edellä | above, before; first, in front; before, ahead of,... |
| 3 | Finnish | esi- | pre-, fore- |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | eci | before; in front |
| 5 | Albanian | *etës | — |
| 6 | Proto-Albanian | *aitatja | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁éyti | to go, to be going |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ey- | to go |