Where does “ilmaantuvuusluku” come from?
ilmaantuvuusluku (Finnish) comes from Finnish luku, from Proto-Finnic luku, from Proto-Finnic lukedak, from Proto-Uralic luke-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
ilmaantuvuusluku (Finnish): incidence rate measure of the frequency with which a disease occurs over a specified time period
Definitions
- incidence rate measure of the frequency with which a disease occurs over a specified time period
Ancestry of “ilmaantuvuusluku”, step by step
ilmaantuvuusluku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish luku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | luku | number, count, quantity; chapter; reading |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | luku | number, quantity |
| 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... |
via Finnish ilmaantuvuus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ilmaantuvuus | incidence measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time |
| 2 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |