Where does “meriarkeologi” come from?

meriarkeologi (Finnish) comes from Finnish arkeologi, from Finnish -logi, from French -logue, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

meriarkeologi (Finnish): maritime archaeologist

Definitions

  1. maritime archaeologist

Ancestry of “meriarkeologi”, step by step

meriarkeologi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish arkeologi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnisharkeologiarcheologist
2Finnish-logi-logist; -logy
3French-logue-logist
4Ancient Greek-λόγοςword, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,...
5Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
6Proto-Hellenic*-os
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

via Finnish meri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmerisea
2Proto-Finnicmerisea
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmórisea; standing water
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmer-to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Ancient Greek -όςEvery word from Ancient Greek -λόγος
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