Where does “tavutusvihje” come from?
tavutusvihje (Finnish) comes from Finnish tavutus, from Finnish tavuttaa, from Finnish tavu, from Finnish tavata, from Swedish stava, from Swedish stav, from Old Swedish staver, from Old Norse stafr — to stand still; to harden.
tavutusvihje (Finnish): soft hyphen
Definitions
- soft hyphen
Ancestry of “tavutusvihje”, step by step
tavutusvihje traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tavutus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tavutus | hyphenation, syllabation, syllabification |
| 2 | Finnish | tavuttaa | to syllabify, to hyphenate |
| 3 | Finnish | tavu | syllable; byte |
| 4 | Finnish | tavata | to meet; to meet up; to find, to catch |
| 5 | Swedish | stava | to spell; to write the individual letters of a... |
| 6 | Swedish | stav | a staff, a rod; a letter |
| 7 | Old Swedish | staver | staff, cane |
| 8 | Old Norse | stafr | staff |
| 9 | Proto-Norse | ᛋᛏᚼᛒᚼ | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | stabaz | staff, stick |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | stebʰ- | to stand still; to harden |