Where does “verhokäyrä” come from?
verhokäyrä (Finnish) comes from Finnish verho, from Finnish -o, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.
verhokäyrä (Finnish): envelope
Ancestry of “verhokäyrä”, step by step
verhokäyrä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish verho
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | verho | curtain; window blind |
| 2 | Finnish | -o | Forms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |
via Finnish käyrä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | käyrä | crooked; curve; plot, graph, diagram |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | käkrä | bent, crooked |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | hagrō | — |
Words derived from “verhokäyrä”