Where does “ilmavuoto” come from?

ilmavuoto (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuoto, from Finnish vuotaa, from Proto-Finnic vootadak, from Proto-Finnic voo, from Proto-Uralic uwa- — to flow.

ilmavuoto (Finnish): air leak

Definitions

  1. air leak

Ancestry of “ilmavuoto”, step by step

ilmavuoto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vuoto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvuotoleak
2FinnishvuotaaTo leak, run, trickle, flow; to ooze, seep; to...
3Proto-Finnicvootadakto flow; to trickle, to seep; to leak
4Proto-Finnicvooflow
5Proto-Uralicuwa-to flow

via Finnish Ilma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishIlmaair
2Finnish-riUsed to create names of occupations from nouns or...
3Finnish-raForms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal...
4Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
5Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
Every word from Proto-Uralic uwa- →Every word from Proto-Finnic voo →Every word from Proto-Finnic vootadak →