Where does “voimasointu” come from?
voimasointu (Finnish) comes from Finnish Sointu, from Finnish sointua, from Finnish soida, from Proto-Finnic soidak, from Proto-Finno-Ugric śoje.
voimasointu (Finnish): power chord
Ancestry of “voimasointu”, step by step
voimasointu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Sointu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Sointu | chord |
| 2 | Finnish | sointua | to harmonize, to tune; Partitive singular form... |
| 3 | Finnish | soida | to sound; to ring |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | soidak | to sound, to ring (to produce a sound) |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | śoje | — |
via Finnish voima
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | voima | power, strength, force, might; force; power |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | voima | power, strength, force, might |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |