Where does “nominaaliasteikko” come from?

nominaaliasteikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish nominaalinen, from Latin nōminālis, from Latin nōmen, from Latin est, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- — to be.

nominaaliasteikko (Finnish): nominal scale

Definitions

  1. nominal scale

Ancestry of “nominaaliasteikko”, step by step

nominaaliasteikko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish nominaalinen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnominaalinennominal
2Latinnōminālisnominal (of a name)
3Latinnōmenname
4Latinestthird-person singular present active indicative...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁éstito be
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁es-to be

via Finnish asteikko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasteikkoscale
2Finnish-ikkoForms nouns for groups of a particular number,...
3Proto-Finnic-ikkoForms nouns indicating a group of things
4Proto-Finnic-i-Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti →Every word from Latin est →