Where does “murtosointu” come from?
murtosointu (Finnish) comes from Finnish murto, from Catalan murta, from Latin myrta, from Ancient Greek Μύρτος, from Semitic m-r-r.
murtosointu (Finnish): arpeggio, broken chord
Ancestry of “murtosointu”, step by step
murtosointu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish murto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | murto | burglary; breaking |
| 2 | Catalan | murta | myrtle |
| 3 | Latin | myrta | nominative plural of myrtum; accusative plural of... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Μύρτος | myrtle (Myrtus communis) |
| 5 | Semitic | m-r-r | — |
via Finnish Sointu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Sointu | chord |
| 2 | Finnish | sointua | to harmonize, to tune; Partitive singular form... |
| 3 | Finnish | soida | to sound; to ring |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | soidak | to sound, to ring (to produce a sound) |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | śoje | — |