Where does “ilmalainausmerkki” come from?
ilmalainausmerkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish lainausmerkki, from Finnish lainaus, from Finnish lainata, from Finnish -ata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.
ilmalainausmerkki (Finnish): air quote
Definitions
- air quote
Ancestry of “ilmalainausmerkki”, step by step
ilmalainausmerkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lainausmerkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lainausmerkki | quotation mark, quote; ditto mark, or shortly... |
| 2 | Finnish | lainaus | lending, borrowing; quotation, quote; speech |
| 3 | Finnish | lainata | to loan, lend; to borrow; to cite, quote |
| 4 | Finnish | -ata | Derives verbs |
| 5 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |