Where does “vektorikenttä” come from?

vektorikenttä (Finnish) comes from Finnish vektori, from Latin vector, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

vektorikenttä (Finnish): vector field

Definitions

  1. vector field

Ancestry of “vektorikenttä”, step by step

vektorikenttä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vektori

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvektorivector
2Latinvectorbearer, carrier; passenger; first-person singular...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

via Finnish kenttä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenttäfield; A limited area where a game is played, a...
2Proto-Samickientēmeadow, field
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin vector →