Where does “servotekniikka” come from?
servotekniikka (Finnish) comes from Finnish tekniikka, from Swedish teknik, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
servotekniikka (Finnish): servo technology
Definitions
- servo technology
Ancestry of “servotekniikka”, step by step
servotekniikka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tekniikka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tekniikka | technology; technique; method |
| 2 | Swedish | teknik | a technique; technology |
| 3 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 4 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Finnish servo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | servo | servo |
| 2 | English | servo | A servomechanism or servomotor; To control by... |
| 3 | English | servomotor | An electric motor in a servomechanism, especially... |
| 4 | French | servo-moteur | — |
| 5 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |