Where does “samettivallankumous” come from?

samettivallankumous (Finnish) comes from Finnish sametti, from Swedish sammet, from Middle Low German sammet, from Old French samit, from Latin samitum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάμιτον, from Ancient Greek ἕξ, from Proto-Hellenic hwéks — six.

samettivallankumous (Finnish): the Velvet Revolution

Definitions

  1. the Velvet Revolution

Ancestry of “samettivallankumous”, step by step

samettivallankumous traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sametti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsamettivelvet
2Swedishsammetvelvet
3Middle Low Germansammet
4Old Frenchsamitsamite
5Latinsamitum
6Ancient Greekἑξάμιτον
7Ancient Greekἕξsix
8Proto-Hellenichwékscardinal...
9Proto-Indo-Europeanswéḱssix

via Finnish vallankumous

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvallankumousrevolution
2Finnishkumousturning over, capsizing; undoing, repealing
3Finnishkumotato turn over, flip over, capsize; to undo,...
4Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs