Where does “armonosoitus” come from?
armonosoitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish osoitus, from Finnish osoittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
armonosoitus (Finnish): show of mercy
Ancestry of “armonosoitus”, step by step
armonosoitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish osoitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | osoitus | indication, demonstration, manifestation |
| 2 | Finnish | osoittaa | to show; to indicate; to point |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish armo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | armo | grace; mercy |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | armo | mercy, pity; love |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | armaz | arm; poor, miserable; pitiful, pitiable |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ermos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |