Where does “pronssiveistos” come from?
pronssiveistos (Finnish) comes from Finnish veistos, from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
pronssiveistos (Finnish): bronze sculpture
Ancestry of “pronssiveistos”, step by step
pronssiveistos 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 pronssi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pronssi | bronze; third place, third position; "short for"... |
| 2 | Swedish | brons | bronze; a bronze sculpture; a bronze medal |