Where does “sointukierto” come from?
sointukierto (Finnish) comes from Finnish kierto, from Finnish kiertää, from Proto-Finnic keertädäk, from Proto-Finnic keerä, from Proto-Uralic kerä.
Ancestry of “sointukierto”, step by step
sointukierto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kierto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kierto | rotation; circulation; Short for sointukierto |
| 2 | Finnish | kiertää | to turn, twist, screw, rotate; to roll; to wind,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | keertädäk | to turn; to spin thread |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | keerä | twisted |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | kerä | — |
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 | — |