Etymograph

English

Ketola

Ketola comes from Finnish keto ‘pasture’, from kesi ‘thin, outer layer of skin’, and ultimately from Proto-Uralic *kete.

  1. Proto-Uralicc. 3000–2000 BCE*kete‘skin, hide’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Finnicprehistoric (reconstructed)*kecireconstructed
  3. Finnishmodernkesi‘thin, outer layer of skin’
  4. Finnish, derivedmodernketo‘pasture’
  5. Finnish, derivedmodernKetola
  6. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Uralicc. 3000–2000 BCE*kete‘skin, hide’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Finnicprehistoric (reconstructed)*kecireconstructed
  3. Finnishmodernkesi‘thin, outer layer of skin’
  4. Finnish, derivedmodernketo‘pasture’
  5. Finnish, derivedmodernKetola
  6. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name A surname from Finnish.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Uralic *kete / Ketola