Where does “palettiveitsi” come from?

palettiveitsi (Finnish) comes from Finnish paletti, from French palette, from French pâle, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.

palettiveitsi (Finnish): palette knife

Definitions

  1. palette knife

Ancestry of “palettiveitsi”, step by step

palettiveitsi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish paletti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalettipalette
2Frenchpalettepalette
3Frenchpâlepale
4Old Frenchpalepale, whitish or having little color
5Latinpalliduspale, pallid, wan; that makes or causes a pale...
6Latin-idustending to
7Proto-Italic*-iðos—

via Finnish veitsi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishveitsiknife
2Proto-Finnicveicciknife
3Proto-Finno-Ugricwäŋćɜ—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-iðos →Every word from Latin -idus →Every word from Latin pallidus →