Where does “kielimaantiede” come from?
kielimaantiede (Finnish) comes from Finnish maantiede, from Finnish tiede, from Finnish tietää, from Finnish -mätön, from Proto-Finnic -mat'oin, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.
kielimaantiede (Finnish): language geography
Definitions
- language geography
Ancestry of “kielimaantiede”, step by step
kielimaantiede traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish maantiede
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | maantiede | geography |
| 2 | Finnish | tiede | science; one of the liberal arts or humanities |
| 3 | Finnish | tietää | to know, be aware of; to signify, mean, presage,... |
| 4 | Finnish | -mätön | Front vowel variant of -maton |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -mat'oin | Forms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -t'oin | -less |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -ktama | — |