Where does “veistely” come from?
veistely (Finnish) comes from Finnish veistellä, from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
veistely (Finnish): sculpting or carving (repeatedly or leisurely)
Definitions
- sculpting or carving (repeatedly or leisurely)
Ancestry of “veistely”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | veistellä | to joke verbally, to tell jocular stories |
| 2 | Finnish | veistää | to carve, cut, whittle; to sculpture, sculpt, hew |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |