Where does “finanssitiede” come from?
finanssitiede (Finnish) comes from Finnish finanssit, from Middle French finance, from Middle French finer, from Middle French fin, from Old French fin, from Latin fīnis, from Proto-Indo-European dʰnh₂-.
finanssitiede (Finnish): finance
Definitions
- finance
Ancestry of “finanssitiede”, step by step
finanssitiede traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish finanssit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | finanssit | finances; financial affairs, money matters |
| 2 | Middle French | finance | — |
| 3 | Middle French | finer | to finish |
| 4 | Middle French | fin | end; finish; death |
| 5 | Old French | fin | fine, delicate |
| 6 | Latin | fīnis | end |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰnh₂- | — |
via Finnish tiede
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tiede | science; one of the liberal arts or humanities |
| 2 | Finnish | tietää | to know, be aware of; to signify, mean, presage,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -mätön | Front vowel variant of -maton |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -mat'oin | Forms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -t'oin | -less |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -ktama | — |