Where does “MAC-osoite” come from?

MAC-osoite (Finnish) comes from Finnish osoite, from Finnish osoittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

MAC-osoite (Finnish): MAC address

Definitions

  1. MAC address

Ancestry of “MAC-osoite”, step by step

MAC-osoite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish osoite

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishosoiteaddress
2Finnishosoittaato show; to indicate; to point
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish MAC

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishMAC—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →