Where does “vuosiviikkotunti” come from?
vuosiviikkotunti (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuosi, from Proto-Finnic vooci, from Proto-Finnic oote, from Proto-Uralic ëde — year.
vuosiviikkotunti (Finnish): A unit of instruction time, equivalent to one lesson per week in an academic year
Definitions
- A unit of instruction time, equivalent to one lesson per week in an academic year
Ancestry of “vuosiviikkotunti”, step by step
vuosiviikkotunti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vuosi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vuosi | year |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | vooci | year |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | oote | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | ëde | year |
via Finnish viikkotunti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | viikkotunti | weekly hour, hour per week |
| 2 | Finnish | viikko | week |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | wikǭ | sequence; week |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | weyg- | to bend, wind, turn, yield; to wind, bend; to... |