Where does “tervehdysasento” come from?

tervehdysasento (Finnish) comes from Finnish asento, from Spanish acento, from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

tervehdysasento (Finnish): salute position

Definitions

  1. salute position

Ancestry of “tervehdysasento”, step by step

tervehdysasento traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish asento

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasentoposition, posture, pose, stance; attention;...
2Spanishacentoaccent
3Latinaccentusa blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;...
4Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
5Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
6LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
7Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
8Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
9Proto-Italic-ējō
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
11Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

via Finnish tervehdys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtervehdysgreeting
2Finnishtervehtiäto greet; to salute; to give the time of day, to...
3Finnishtervehealthy, sane; healthy, sound; sound, well
4Proto-Finnictervehhealthy, well; solid, whole
5Proto-Finnic-ehForms nominals
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yeti