Where does “avainärsyke” come from?
avainärsyke (Finnish) comes from Finnish ärsyke, from Finnish ärsyttää, from Finnish ärtyä, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from Spanish tú, from Latin tuus, from Russian туз.
avainärsyke (Finnish): key stimulus
Definitions
- key stimulus
Ancestry of “avainärsyke”, step by step
avainärsyke traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ärsyke
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ärsyke | stimulus; irritant |
| 2 | Finnish | ärsyttää | to irritate, annoy mentally and/or physically; to bother, exasperate, irk, rub someone the wrong way mentally |
| 3 | Finnish | ärtyä | to get inflamed; to become irritated, ired |
| 4 | Finnish | -tua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 5 | Ido | tu | you singular, thou |
| 6 | Spanish | tú | you; thou |
| 7 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 8 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 9 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 10 | Polish | tu | here |
| 11 | Polish | być | to be |
| 12 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 13 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 14 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | mógʰtis | — |