Where does “henkilökultti” come from?
henkilökultti (Finnish) comes from Finnish kultti, from Swedish kult, from French culte, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
henkilökultti (Finnish): cult of personality
Ancestry of “henkilökultti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | kultti | A cult |
| 2 | Swedish | kult | — |
| 3 | French | culte | religion; cult |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |