Where does “lentokyky” come from?
lentokyky (Finnish) comes from Finnish lento, from Italian lento, from Spanish lento, from Galician -ura, from Latin -ura, from Latin -tūra — ing, -ure, -work.
lentokyky (Finnish): flying skill
Definitions
- flying skill
Ancestry of “lentokyky”, step by step
lentokyky traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lento
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lento | flying, flight; flight; lento |
| 2 | Italian | lento | slow |
| 3 | Spanish | lento | slow |
| 4 | Galician | -ura | -ness |
| 5 | Latin | -ura | Suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives |
| 6 | Latin | -tūra | ing, -ure, -work |
via Finnish kyky
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kyky | ability, capacity, capability; a capable person,... |
| 2 | Finnish | kyetä | To be able to, be capable of, can, be competent... |
| 3 | Finnish | -etä | Front vowel variant of -eta |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -t'ak | Forms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |