Where does “kauttaviiva” come from?

kauttaviiva (Finnish) comes from Finnish kautta, from Finnish kausi, from Proto-Finnic kauci, from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte — road? way? passage ?.

kauttaviiva (Finnish): A slash, stroke British symbol "/"

Definitions

  1. A slash, stroke British symbol "/"

Ancestry of “kauttaviiva”, step by step

kauttaviiva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kautta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkauttathrough, via, by; throughout; by, through
2Finnishkausiperiod, age, epoch, season; term; period
3Proto-Finnickauci(section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey
4Proto-Finno-Permickawteroad? way? passage ?

via Finnish viiva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviivaline; dash, hyphen; bar
2Finnishvije-—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Permic kawte →