Where does “kuultokudos” come from?
kuultokudos (Finnish) comes from Finnish kudos, from Finnish kutoa, from Finnish -e, from Finnish hartia, from Serbo-Croatian hartija, from Greek χαρτί, from Koine Greek χαρτίον, from Ancient Greek χάρτης — to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines.
kuultokudos (Finnish): a translucent woven cloth, often with a pictorial design and used as a window screen
Definitions
- a translucent woven cloth, often with a pictorial design and used as a window screen
Ancestry of “kuultokudos”, step by step
kuultokudos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kudos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kudos | fabric; woven fabric; that which has been woven;... |
| 2 | Finnish | kutoa | to weave; to knit |
| 3 | Finnish | -e | Used for forming nouns from verbs or adjectives |
| 4 | Finnish | hartia | shoulder |
| 5 | Serbo-Croatian | hartija | paper |
| 6 | Greek | χαρτί | paper |
| 7 | Koine Greek | χαρτίον | paper, papyrus |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |