Where does “sekuntiviisari” come from?
sekuntiviisari (Finnish) comes from Finnish sekunti, from Swedish sekund, from Latin secunda, from Latin secundus, from Latin sequor, from Proto-Italic sekʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European sékʷetor, from Proto-Indo-European sekʷ- — to follow; to see; to say.
sekuntiviisari (Finnish): second hand
Definitions
- second hand
Ancestry of “sekuntiviisari”, step by step
sekuntiviisari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish sekunti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sekunti | second |
| 2 | Swedish | sekund | second |
| 3 | Latin | secunda | inflection of secundus: ## feminine... |
| 4 | Latin | secundus | second, the ordinal number after prīmus and... |
| 5 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |
via Finnish viisari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | viisari | pointer, hand |
| 2 | Swedish | visare | comparative degree of vis; hand of clock or gauge |
| 3 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | -are | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria |
| 5 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |