Where does “kulttuurilähettiläs” come from?
kulttuurilähettiläs (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.
kulttuurilähettiläs (Finnish): cultural attaché, cultural ambassador
Definitions
- cultural attaché, cultural ambassador
Ancestry of “kulttuurilähettiläs”, step by step
kulttuurilähettiläs 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 |
via Finnish lähettiläs
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lähettiläs | emissary; bishop |
| 2 | Finnish | lähetti | messenger, courier; orderly; errand boy |
| 3 | Finnish | lähettää | to send; to dispatch; to ship |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |