Where does “toimintokielitiede” come from?
toimintokielitiede (Finnish) comes from Finnish toiminto, from Finnish toimia, from Finnish Toimi, from Finnish toimi, from Proto-Finnic toimi, from Proto-Finnic toodak, from Proto-Uralic toxe-, from Hungarian -ik — Specifies "which" one of a specific set of...
toimintokielitiede (Finnish): functional linguistics, functionalism approach to the study of language characterized by systematically taking into account the speaker's and the hearer's sides, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community
Definitions
- functional linguistics, functionalism approach to the study of language characterized by systematically taking into account the speaker's and the hearer's sides, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community
Ancestry of “toimintokielitiede”, step by step
toimintokielitiede traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish toiminto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | toiminto | feature; function |
| 2 | Finnish | toimia | to work, function, run; to serve, act, work; to... |
| 3 | Finnish | Toimi | chore, task, job, duty |
| 4 | Finnish | toimi | chore, task, job, duty; activities, business,... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | toimi | work, task, chore |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | toodak | to bring |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | toxe- | to bring, give |
| 8 | Hungarian | -ik | Specifies "which" one of a specific set of... |
via Finnish kielitiede
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kielitiede | linguistics |
| 2 | Finnish | tiede | science; one of the liberal arts or humanities |
| 3 | Finnish | tietää | to know, be aware of; to signify, mean, presage,... |
| 4 | Finnish | -mätön | Front vowel variant of -maton |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -mat'oin | Forms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -t'oin | -less |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -ktama | — |