Where does “veistos” come from?
veistos (Finnish) comes from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
veistos (Finnish): A sculpture
Definitions
- A sculpture
Ancestry of “veistos”, step by step
veistos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish veistää
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | veistää | to carve, cut, whittle; to sculpture, sculpt, hew |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish os
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | os | — |