Where does “avausvedin” come from?
avausvedin (Finnish) comes from Finnish avaus, from Finnish avata, from Proto-Finnic avait'ak, from Proto-Finno-Ugric aŋa-.
avausvedin (Finnish): ring pull
Ancestry of “avausvedin”, step by step
avausvedin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish avaus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | avaus | opening |
| 2 | Finnish | avata | to open; to unwrap; to turn on |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | avait'ak | to open |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | aŋa- | — |
via Finnish vedin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vedin | pull; clothes, attire; First-person singular... |
| 2 | Finnish | -in | Suffix variant for the illative singular, see... |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *-in | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |