Where does “tietotekniikka” come from?
tietotekniikka (Finnish) comes from Finnish tekniikka, from Swedish teknik, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
tietotekniikka (Finnish): information technology
Definitions
- information technology
Ancestry of “tietotekniikka”, step by step
tietotekniikka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tekniikka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tekniikka | technology; technique; method |
| 2 | Swedish | teknik | a technique; technology |
| 3 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 4 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |