Where does “DVD-levy” come from?

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

DVD-levy (Finnish): DVD

Definitions

  1. DVD

Ancestry of “DVD-levy”, step by step

DVD-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 DVD

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishDVD—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish levy →