Where does “iltatorkku” come from?
iltatorkku (Finnish) comes from Finnish ilta, from Finnish -nen, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
iltatorkku (Finnish): a person who is sleepy in the evenings
Definitions
- a person who is sleepy in the evenings
Ancestry of “iltatorkku”, step by step
iltatorkku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ilta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ilta | evening |
| 2 | Finnish | -nen | Forms diminutives nouns or terms expressing... |
| 3 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 4 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |
via Finnish torkku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | torkku | nap, snooze; sleepy |
| 2 | Finnish | torkkua | to snooze, doze, drowse |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |