Where does “jääveistos” come from?
jääveistos (Finnish) comes from Finnish veistos, from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
jääveistos (Finnish): ice sculpture
Ancestry of “jääveistos”, step by step
jääveistos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish veistos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | veistos | A sculpture |
| 2 | Finnish | veistää | to carve, cut, whittle; to sculpture, sculpt, hew |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish jää
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jää | ice; rock; in the expression on the rocks =... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | jää | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | jäŋe | ice |