Where does “makuuasento” come from?

makuuasento (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.

makuuasento (Finnish): A decubitus

Definitions

  1. A decubitus

Ancestry of “makuuasento”, step by step

makuuasento 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 makuu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmakuulying; sleeping
2Finnish-uuForms nouns from verbs
3Finnish-au
4Finnish-ao
5Proto-Finnic-ado
6Proto-Finnic-oForms action/result nouns from verbs
7Proto-Uralic-w
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yetiEvery word from Latin -eoEvery word from Latin caneo