Where does “kuvanveisto” come from?
kuvanveisto (Finnish) comes from Finnish veisto, from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kuvanveisto (Finnish): sculpture
Definitions
- sculpture
Ancestry of “kuvanveisto”, step by step
kuvanveisto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish veisto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | veisto | carving, the act of carving; sculpting, the act... |
| 2 | Finnish | veistää | to carve, cut, whittle; to sculpture, sculpt, hew |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish kuva
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuva | picture; image; photograph, photo |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | skuwwô | reflection, mirror image; shadow |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱeh₃w-ō ~ (s)ḱuh₃-nés | shadow, reflection |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |