Where does “LP-levy” come from?

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

LP-levy (Finnish): LP, long-playing record

Definitions

  1. LP, long-playing record

Ancestry of “LP-levy”, step by step

LP-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 LP

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