Where does “ärsyketulva” come from?

ärsyketulva (Finnish) comes from Finnish ärsyke, from Finnish ärsyttää, from Finnish ärtyä, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from English thou, from English thousand, from Middle English thousend — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.

ärsyketulva (Finnish): flood of stimuli, deluge of stimuli

Definitions

  1. flood of stimuli, deluge of stimuli

Ancestry of “ärsyketulva”, step by step

ärsyketulva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ärsyke

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishärsykestimulus; irritant
2Finnishärsyttääto irritate, annoy mentally and/or physically; to bother, exasperate, irk, rub someone the wrong way mentally
3Finnishärtyäto get inflamed; to become irritated, ired
4Finnish-tuaForms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs...
5Idotuyou singular, thou
6EnglishthouNominative singular of ye; To address using the...
7EnglishthousandA numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10
8Middle EnglishthousendA thousand; 1000
9Old Englishþūsendthousand
10Proto-West Germanicþūsundithousand
11Proto-Germanicþūsundīa thousand
12Proto-Indo-EuropeantuHsont-thousand
13Proto-Indo-Europeantewh₂-to swell; to crowd; to be strong

via Finnish tulva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtulvaflood
Every word from Proto-Indo-European tewh₂- →Every word from Finnish -tua →Every word from Proto-Indo-European tuHsont- →