Where does “kastepistemittari” come from?

kastepistemittari (Finnish) comes from Finnish kastepiste, from Finnish piste, from Finnish -e, from Finnish hartia, from Serbo-Croatian hartija, from Greek χαρτί, from Koine Greek χαρτίον, from Ancient Greek χάρτης — to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines.

kastepistemittari (Finnish): dewcell instrument for measuring the dew point

Definitions

  1. dewcell instrument for measuring the dew point

Ancestry of “kastepistemittari”, step by step

kastepistemittari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kastepiste

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkastepistedew point
2Finnishpistepoint, dot, full stop, period; point
3Finnish-eUsed for forming nouns from verbs or adjectives
4Finnishhartiashoulder
5Serbo-Croatianhartijapaper
6Greekχαρτίpaper
7Koine Greekχαρτίονpaper, papyrus
8Ancient Greekχάρτηςsheet of paper, paper; book
9Ancient Greekχαράσσωto sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp
10Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰer-to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines

via Finnish mittari

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmittarimeter, gauge, indicator, instrument; geometrid...
2Finnishmitatato measure (off/out), gauge
3Middle Dutchmētento measure
4Old Dutchmetanto measure
5Proto-Germanic*metan
6Proto-Germanicmetanąto measure
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmēd-to measure
8Proto-Indo-Europeanmed-to measure; to give advice; healing
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰer-