Where does “piirrostaide” come from?
piirrostaide (Finnish) comes from Finnish piirros, from Finnish piirtää, from Finnish piiri, from Proto-Finnic piiri, from Proto-Uralic pire — circle.
piirrostaide (Finnish): art made by drawing
Ancestry of “piirrostaide”, step by step
piirrostaide traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish piirros
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | piirros | drawing, sketch |
| 2 | Finnish | piirtää | to draw, sketch; to design, draft; to outline,... |
| 3 | Finnish | piiri | ring of people; administrative district, region;... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | piiri | line; border; ring, circle |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | pire | circle |
via Finnish taide
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | taide | art |
| 2 | Finnish | taitaa | to know, master, command, have a command of, have... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | taitadak | to know |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | taje- | — |