Where does “vesikives” come from?
vesikives (Finnish) comes from Finnish kives, from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.
vesikives (Finnish): hydrocele testicle
Ancestry of “vesikives”, step by step
vesikives traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kives
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kives | testicle; A stone inside birch bark, used as... |
| 2 | Finnish | -s | Forms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -nci | Forms ordinal numbers from the corresponding... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -mte | — |
via Finnish vesi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vesi | water; lake; rheum |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | veci | water |
| 3 | Arabic | وعاء | vessel, container, bowl |