Where does “minuuttiviisari” come from?
minuuttiviisari (Finnish) comes from Finnish viisari, from Swedish visare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
minuuttiviisari (Finnish): minute hand
Ancestry of “minuuttiviisari”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | viisari | pointer, hand |
| 2 | Swedish | visare | comparative degree of vis; hand of clock or gauge |
| 3 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | -are | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | — |