Where does “ministerikierros” come from?
ministerikierros (Finnish) comes from Finnish ministeri, from Swedish minister, from Latin minister, from Latin minus, from Proto-Italic minos — less.
ministerikierros (Finnish): round of ministerial negotiations
Definitions
- round of ministerial negotiations
Ancestry of “ministerikierros”, step by step
ministerikierros traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ministeri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ministeri | a minister; an honorary title of the second rank... |
| 2 | Swedish | minister | a minister |
| 3 | Latin | minister | attendant, servant, waiter; agent, aide;... |
| 4 | Latin | minus | nominative neuter singular of minor; accusative... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | minos | less |
via Finnish kierros
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kierros | round, lap; round; rotation, revolution |
| 2 | Finnish | kiertää | to turn, twist, screw, rotate; to roll; to wind,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | keertädäk | to turn; to spin thread |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | keerä | twisted |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | kerä | — |