Where does “runonlaulanta” come from?

runonlaulanta (Finnish) comes from Finnish runo, from Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ, from Proto-Germanic rūnō, from Proto-Celtic rūnā — secret, mystery.

runonlaulanta (Finnish): poetry singing

Definitions

  1. poetry singing

Ancestry of “runonlaulanta”, step by step

runonlaulanta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish runo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrunopoem; poetry; rune
2Proto-Norseᚱᚢᚾᛟsecret, mystery; rune
3Proto-Germanicrūnōsecret, mystery; rune
4Proto-Celticrūnāsecret, mystery

via Finnish laulanta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlaulanta—
2Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Celtic rūnā →Every word from Proto-Germanic rūnō →Every word from Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ →