Where does “pimento” come from?
pimento (Finnish) comes from Finnish pimentää, from Finnish pimetä, from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
pimento (Finnish): dark, darkness
Definitions
- dark, darkness
Ancestry of “pimento”, step by step
pimento traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pimentää
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pimentää | to darken |
| 2 | Finnish | pimetä | to darken, to get dark |
| 3 | Finnish | -etä | Front vowel variant of -eta |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -t'ak | Forms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |
via Finnish o
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | o | — |