Where does “virrenveisuu” come from?

virrenveisuu (Finnish) comes from Finnish veisuu, from Finnish veisata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

virrenveisuu (Finnish): singing of hymns

Definitions

  1. singing of hymns

Ancestry of “virrenveisuu”, step by step

virrenveisuu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish veisuu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishveisuuchanting, psalmody
2Finnishveisatato psalm, sing; in the expression "viis veisata";...
3Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
4Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish virsi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvirsihymn, psalm or chant
2Proto-Finnicvircisong, poem
3Proto-Finnicvirti
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä