Where does “pienoisveistos” come from?
pienoisveistos (Finnish) comes from Finnish veistos, from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
pienoisveistos (Finnish): miniature sculpture, mini sculpture
Definitions
- miniature sculpture, mini sculpture
Ancestry of “pienoisveistos”, step by step
pienoisveistos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish veistos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | veistos | A sculpture |
| 2 | Finnish | veistää | to carve, cut, whittle; to sculpture, sculpt, hew |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish pienoinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pienoinen | tiny, little, weensy |
| 2 | Finnish | öinen | nocturnal |
| 3 | Finnish | yö | period of day
Previous:
iltayö
Next:
aamuyö;... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | öö | night |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | üje | — |