Where does “hätäjarrutus” come from?
hätäjarrutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish jarrutus, from Finnish jarruttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
hätäjarrutus (Finnish): emergency braking
Ancestry of “hätäjarrutus”, step by step
hätäjarrutus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish jarrutus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jarrutus | braking; filibuster, filibustering |
| 2 | Finnish | jarruttaa | to brake; to filibuster |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish hätä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hätä | emergency; distress; need, necessity |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | hätä | emergency; distress, agony |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | šätä | hundred |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | sētō | place, position; lying in wait, ambush |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sḗd- | to sit |