Where does “kielenkäyttö” come from?
kielenkäyttö (Finnish) comes from Finnish kieli, from Finnish kielitiede, from Finnish tiede, from Finnish tietää, from Finnish -mätön, from Proto-Finnic -mat'oin, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.
kielenkäyttö (Finnish): usage; language; French
Ancestry of “kielenkäyttö”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | kieli | tongue; language; string |
| 2 | Finnish | kielitiede | linguistics |
| 3 | Finnish | tiede | science; one of the liberal arts or humanities |
| 4 | Finnish | tietää | to know, be aware of; to signify, mean, presage,... |
| 5 | Finnish | -mätön | Front vowel variant of -maton |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -mat'oin | — |
| 7 | Proto-Finnic | -t'oin | -less |
| 8 | Proto-Uralic | -ktama | — |