Where does “merenkulkutaito” come from?
merenkulkutaito (Finnish) comes from Finnish Taito, from Finnish taito, from Finnish -o, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.
merenkulkutaito (Finnish): maritime skill, navigational skill, seamanship
Definitions
- maritime skill, navigational skill, seamanship
Ancestry of “merenkulkutaito”, step by step
merenkulkutaito traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Taito
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Taito | skill capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned |
| 2 | Finnish | taito | skill; art |
| 3 | Finnish | -o | Forms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |
via Finnish merenkulku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | merenkulku | seafaring |
| 2 | Finnish | meri | sea |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | meri | sea |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | móri | sea; standing water |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | mer- | to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland |