Where does “korkeakulttuuri” come from?
korkeakulttuuri (Finnish) comes from Finnish kulttuuri, from Swedish kultur, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
korkeakulttuuri (Finnish): high culture, civilization
Definitions
- high culture, civilization
Ancestry of “korkeakulttuuri”, step by step
korkeakulttuuri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kulttuuri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kulttuuri | culture |
| 2 | Swedish | kultur | culture, cultivation; culture, spiritual... |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |