Where does “väestötieteilijä” come from?
väestötieteilijä (Finnish) comes from Finnish tieteilijä, from Finnish tieteillä, from Finnish tiede, from Finnish tietää, from Finnish -mätön, from Proto-Finnic -mat'oin, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.
väestötieteilijä (Finnish): demographer
Definitions
- demographer
Ancestry of “väestötieteilijä”, step by step
väestötieteilijä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tieteilijä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tieteilijä | -ologist, scientist |
| 2 | Finnish | tieteillä | to dabble in science |
| 3 | Finnish | tiede | science; one of the liberal arts or humanities |
| 4 | Finnish | tietää | to know, be aware of; to signify, mean, presage,... |
| 5 | Finnish | -mätön | Front vowel variant of -maton |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -mat'oin | Forms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective |
| 7 | Proto-Finnic | -t'oin | -less |
| 8 | Proto-Uralic | -ktama | — |
via Finnish väestö
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | väestö | Population; the people living within a political... |
| 2 | Finnish | väki | people, crowd; power, strength, force |
| 3 | Icelandic | vaki | hormone |
| 4 | Arabic | وَاقِع | happening, occurring; falling |
| 5 | Arabic | النَّسْر الوَاقِع | falling eagle |