Where does “sekstisointu” come from?
sekstisointu (Finnish) comes from Finnish seksti, from Latin Sextus, from Latin sex, from Proto-Italic seks, from Proto-Indo-European swéḱs — six.
sekstisointu (Finnish): sixth chord
Ancestry of “sekstisointu”, step by step
sekstisointu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish seksti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | seksti | sixth |
| 2 | Latin | Sextus | particularly popular in Gaul. (Occasionally also found as a cognomen.) In particular |
| 3 | Latin | sex | six; 6 |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | seks | six |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | swéḱs | six |
via Finnish Sointu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Sointu | chord |
| 2 | Finnish | sointua | to harmonize, to tune; Partitive singular form... |
| 3 | Finnish | soida | to sound; to ring |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | soidak | to sound, to ring (to produce a sound) |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | śoje | — |