Where does “sonaattimuoto” come from?
sonaattimuoto (Finnish) comes from Finnish sonaatti, from Swedish sonat, from Italian sonata, from Italian sonare, from Latin sonāre, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.
sonaattimuoto (Finnish): sonata form
Definitions
- sonata form
Ancestry of “sonaattimuoto”, step by step
sonaattimuoto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish sonaatti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sonaatti | sonata |
| 2 | Swedish | sonat | sonata |
| 3 | Italian | sonata | sonata; feminine singular of sonato |
| 4 | Italian | sonare | Alternative form of suonare |
| 5 | Latin | sonāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 7 | Latin | sonō | to sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context) |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | to sound, resound |