Where does “ennätyslukema” come from?
ennätyslukema (Finnish) comes from Finnish ennätys, from Finnish ennättää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
ennätyslukema (Finnish): record, record number a number serving as a record
Definitions
- record, record number a number serving as a record
Ancestry of “ennätyslukema”, step by step
ennätyslukema traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ennätys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ennätys | record |
| 2 | Finnish | ennättää | to make it (in time), arrive (in time), reach (in time) e.g. when in a hurry |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish lukema
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lukema | Reading; Agent participle of lukea |
| 2 | Finnish | lukea | to read; to study; to consider |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | lukedak | to count; to read ? |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | luke- | to count |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |