Where does “lähetyssaarnaaja-asento” come from?

lähetyssaarnaaja-asento (Finnish) comes from Finnish asento, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

lähetyssaarnaaja-asento (Finnish): missionary position

Definitions

  1. missionary position

Ancestry of “lähetyssaarnaaja-asento”, step by step

lähetyssaarnaaja-asento traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish asento

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasentoposition, posture, pose, stance; attention;...
2Spanishacentoaccent
3Latinaccentusa blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;...
4Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
5Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
6LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
7Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
8Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
9Proto-Italic-ējō
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
11Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

via Finnish lähetyssaarnaaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlähetyssaarnaajamissionary
2Finnishsaarnaajapreacher
3Finnishice
4Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja
5Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
6Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
7Proto-Germanic-hwe
8Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yetiEvery word from Latin -eoEvery word from Latin caneo
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