Where does “salakirjoitustaito” come from?
salakirjoitustaito (Finnish) comes from Finnish Taito, from Finnish taito, from Finnish -o, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.
salakirjoitustaito (Finnish): cryptography art and practice of writing and decoding secret messages
Definitions
- cryptography art and practice of writing and decoding secret messages
Ancestry of “salakirjoitustaito”, step by step
salakirjoitustaito traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Taito
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Taito | skill capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned |
| 2 | Finnish | taito | skill; art |
| 3 | Finnish | -o | Forms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |
via Finnish salakirjoitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | salakirjoitus | cipher; ciphering; ciphertext, cipher |
| 2 | Finnish | kirjoitus | The act of writing; A scripture, writing; An... |
| 3 | Finnish | kirjoittaa | to write; to spell; to take an examination in |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | kirjoittadak | to embroider, to decorate with embroidery |