Where does “hengähdysaika” come from?

hengähdysaika (Finnish) comes from Finnish aika, from Finnish -isin, from Hungarian isi, from Hungarian -i, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

hengähdysaika (Finnish): break, breather short rest or pause, such as from arduous work, but also from a difficult situation

Definitions

  1. break, breather short rest or pause, such as from arduous work, but also from a difficult situation

Ancestry of “hengähdysaika”, step by step

hengähdysaika traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish aika

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaikatime; time, moment; appointment
2Finnish-isinThe case suffix denoting temporal distributive;...
3Hungarianisischool
4Hungarian-iAdded to a proper noun, noun or postposition to...
5HungarianUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
6Albanian-ing, -ion
7Proto-West Germanic-jā
8Proto-Indo-European-íh₂
9Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

via Finnish hengähdys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhengähdystaking a breather
2Finnishhengähtääto take a breather to take a break; to pause or relax briefly
3Finnish-ähtääFront vowel variant of -ahtaa
4Proto-Finnic-ahtadakForms momentane verbs
5Proto-Uralic-ašta-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂Every word from Hungarian -iEvery word from Hungarian
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