Where does “aistihavainto” come from?
aistihavainto (Finnish) comes from Finnish havainto, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.
aistihavainto (Finnish): sensory perception
Ancestry of “aistihavainto”, step by step
aistihavainto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish havainto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | havainto | perception; observation |
| 2 | Finnish | -ntö | — |
| 3 | Finnish | -mö | Front vowel variant of -mo |
| 4 | Finnish | -i | A nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j | oblique plural |
via Finnish aisti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | aisti | sense; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Finnish | haisti | olfaction; the sense of smell |
| 3 | Finnish | haistaa | to sniff, smell; to scent, smell/nose out, get... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | haistadak | to smell |