Where does “kulttijohtaja” come from?
kulttijohtaja (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.
kulttijohtaja (Finnish): cult leader
Definitions
- cult leader
Ancestry of “kulttijohtaja”, step by step
kulttijohtaja 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 johtaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | johtaja | leader, commander; manager, director, executive |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |