Where does “prisma” come from?

prisma (Finnish) comes from Late Latin prisma, from Ancient Greek πρίσμα, from Ancient Greek -μᾰ, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

prisma (Finnish): prism

Definitions

  1. prism

Ancestry of “prisma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinprismaprism
2Ancient GreekπρίσμαAnything sawn, sawdust; A prism
3Ancient Greek-μᾰ"suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...
4Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

Words derived from “prisma”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ →Every word from Ancient Greek -μᾰ →Every word from Ancient Greek πρίσμα →