Where does “CD-ROM-levy” come from?

CD-ROM-levy (Finnish) comes from Finnish levy, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

CD-ROM-levy (Finnish): CD-ROM disc, CD-ROM

Definitions

  1. CD-ROM disc, CD-ROM

Ancestry of “CD-ROM-levy”, step by step

CD-ROM-levy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish levy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlevyplate; board; slab
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

via Finnish CD-ROM

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishCD-ROMCD-ROM
2EnglishCD-ROMcompact disk - read only memory: an optical disc...
Every word from Proto-Finnic -uEvery word from Finnish -uEvery word from Finnish levy
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