Where does “minä-kertoja” come from?
minä-kertoja (Finnish) comes from Finnish kertoja, from Finnish kertoa, from Finnish kerta, from Proto-Finnic kerta, from Proto-Indo-European kert-, from Proto-Turkic *keŕ- — to travel, tour.
minä-kertoja (Finnish): first-person narrator
Definitions
- first-person narrator
Ancestry of “minä-kertoja”, step by step
minä-kertoja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kertoja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kertoja | narrator; storyteller; multiplier |
| 2 | Finnish | kertoa | to tell; to multiply; to have it |
| 3 | Finnish | kerta | time, occasion; time; times; also once, when the... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | kerta | time |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kert- | times; to weave, twist together; time |
| 6 | Proto-Turkic | *keŕ- | to travel, tour |