Where does “ilmapudotus” come from?
ilmapudotus (Finnish) comes from Finnish Ilma, from Finnish -ri, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.
ilmapudotus (Finnish): airdrop act of dropping goods, equipment, or personnel from an aircraft
Definitions
- airdrop act of dropping goods, equipment, or personnel from an aircraft
Ancestry of “ilmapudotus”, step by step
ilmapudotus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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 |
via Finnish pudotus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pudotus | fall; act of dropping; dropdown |
| 2 | Finnish | pudottaa | To drop |
| 3 | Finnish | pudota | to fall (from an elevated position); to fall down, fall off; to drop, slip |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | pudot'ak | to fall off |