•to project (to cast an image or shadow upon a surface) · to project (to assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality) · to project
to throw; to pitch, to toss, to cast (to release (an object) with some force from one's hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air) · to cast (to give light or shadow) · to quit (to stop doing something, e.g. smoking)
reflection: something reflected, such as an image in a mirror. · shade; shadow. · (พระ~) mirror; looking-glass.
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit छाया (chāyā, “shadow; reflection”), possibly via Old Khmer chāya (“shadow; reflection; looking-glass”). Cognate with Modern Khmer ឆាយ (chaay).
Internationalism, ultimately from Latin prōiciō and adapted with the verbal suffix + -oida. The form projisioida is closer to the Latin original (with -s- from forms like German projizieren). The removal of the -i- is probably by analogy with other Finnish verbs ending in -soida.