Where does “kulttipaikka” come from?
kulttipaikka (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.
kulttipaikka (Finnish): place of (cult) worship
Definitions
- place of (cult) worship
Ancestry of “kulttipaikka”, step by step
kulttipaikka 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 |