Where does “yksikköneliö” come from?

yksikköneliö (Finnish) comes from Finnish neliö, from Finnish neljä, from Proto-Finnic neljä, from Proto-Uralic neljä — four.

yksikköneliö (Finnish): unit square square in the Cartesian plane with four points (0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)

Definitions

  1. unit square square in the Cartesian plane with four points (0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)

Ancestry of “yksikköneliö”, step by step

yksikköneliö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish neliö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishneliösquare; four-room apartment; Short for neliömetri
2Finnishneljäfour
3Proto-Finnicneljäfour
4Proto-Uralicneljäfour

via Finnish yksikkö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishyksikköunit; singular; single
2Finnish-kköFront vowel variant of -kko
3Proto-Finnic-kkoiForms diminutive nouns
Every word from Proto-Uralic neljä →Every word from Proto-Finnic neljä →Every word from Finnish neljä →