Where does “sivistyssanakirja” come from?
sivistyssanakirja (Finnish) comes from Finnish sanakirja, from Swedish ordbok, from Swedish ord, from Old Swedish orþ, from Old Norse orð, from Proto-Germanic wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European werdʰo-, from Proto-Indo-European werh₁- — to speak, say.
sivistyssanakirja (Finnish): dictionary of learned borrowings or clearly foreign words (such as scientific vocabulary)
Definitions
- dictionary of learned borrowings or clearly foreign words (such as scientific vocabulary)
Ancestry of “sivistyssanakirja”, step by step
sivistyssanakirja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.