Where does “kanttori” come from?

kanttori (Finnish) comes from Swedish kantor, from Latin cantor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

kanttori (Finnish): cantor

Definitions

  1. cantor

Ancestry of “kanttori”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishkantora cantor (church musician)
2Latincantorsinger; player; first-person singular present...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “kanttori”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin cantor →