Where does “pestokastike” come from?
pestokastike (Finnish) comes from Finnish pesto, from Italian pesto, from Latin pistus, from Latin pīnsō, from Spanish pienso, from Latin pēnsum, from Latin pendō, from Proto-Italic pendō — to stretch.
pestokastike (Finnish): pesto sauce
Definitions
- pesto sauce
Ancestry of “pestokastike”, step by step
pestokastike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pesto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pesto | pesto |
| 2 | Italian | pesto | crushed, ground, beaten; livid, bluish, black;... |
| 3 | Latin | pistus | pounded, beaten |
| 4 | Latin | pīnsō | to beat, pound |
| 5 | Spanish | pienso | animal feed; thought |
| 6 | Latin | pēnsum | allotment, portion, weight (of wool measured out to a slave to spin in a day) |
| 7 | Latin | pendō | to weigh, weigh out |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | pendō | hang, put in a hanging position |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)péndeti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pend- | to stretch |
via Finnish kastike
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kastike | sauce; gravy; dressing |
| 2 | Finnish | kastaa | to dip, sop; to baptize/baptise |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | kastadak | to wet, to soak; to dip, to immerse |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |