Where does “ilmahälytys” come from?
ilmahälytys (Finnish) comes from Finnish hälytys, from Finnish hälyttää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
ilmahälytys (Finnish): air alert, air alarm
Ancestry of “ilmahälytys”, step by step
ilmahälytys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish hälytys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hälytys | alarm; alarm, alert |
| 2 | Finnish | hälyttää | To alarm |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish Ilma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Ilma | air |
| 2 | Finnish | -ri | Used to create names of occupations from nouns or... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ra | Forms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal... |
| 4 | Finnish | -i | A nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j | oblique plural |