Where does “eläkevakuutus” come from?
eläkevakuutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish vakuutus, from Finnish vakuuttaa, from Finnish uuttaa, from Finnish uu, from Latin U, from Latin V, from Etruscan ? — u.
eläkevakuutus (Finnish): pension insurance
Definitions
- pension insurance
Ancestry of “eläkevakuutus”, step by step
eläkevakuutus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vakuutus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vakuutus | insurance; assurance or promise; oath of office |
| 2 | Finnish | vakuuttaa | to assert, assure, convince; to reassure; to... |
| 3 | Finnish | uuttaa | to extract; Third-person singular indicative... |
| 4 | Finnish | uu | The name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest |
| 5 | Latin | U | — |
| 6 | Latin | V | ve |
| 7 | Etruscan | ? | u |
via Finnish eläke
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | eläke | pension |
| 2 | Finnish | -ke | Forms diminutive forms of nouns; Forms nouns from... |
| 3 | Finnish | -kkä | Front vowel variant of -kka |
| 4 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 5 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |