Where does “laivalatomus” come from?
laivalatomus (Finnish) comes from Finnish laiva, from Proto-Finnic laiva, from Proto-Finnic lawja, from Proto-Germanic flawją, from Proto-Indo-European plew- — to fly, flow, run.
laivalatomus (Finnish): stone ship an arrangement of stones or rocks that form a shape similar to a ship
Definitions
- stone ship an arrangement of stones or rocks that form a shape similar to a ship
Ancestry of “laivalatomus”, step by step
laivalatomus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish laiva
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | laiva | ship; nave |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | laiva | ship |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | lawja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | flawją | ship, vessel |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | plew- | to fly, flow, run |
via Finnish latomus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | latomus | pile, stack the result of piling or stacking up |
| 2 | Finnish | -mus | Forms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |