Where does “kulttielokuva” come from?
kulttielokuva (Finnish) comes from Finnish kultti, from Swedish kult, from French culte, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
kulttielokuva (Finnish): cult movie, cult film
Definitions
- cult movie, cult film
Ancestry of “kulttielokuva”, step by step
kulttielokuva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kultti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kultti | A cult |
| 2 | Swedish | kult | cult |
| 3 | French | culte | religion; cult |
| 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 |
via Finnish elokuva
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | elokuva | movie; cinema; in plural also movies, cinema |
| 2 | Finnish | kuva | picture; image; photograph, photo |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | skuwwô | reflection, mirror image; shadow |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱeh₃w-ō ~ (s)ḱuh₃-nés | shadow, reflection |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |