Where does “jännitemuuntaja” come from?
jännitemuuntaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish muuntaja, from Finnish jä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.
jännitemuuntaja (Finnish): voltage transformer, voltage converter
Definitions
- voltage transformer, voltage converter
Ancestry of “jännitemuuntaja”, step by step
jännitemuuntaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish muuntaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muuntaja | transformer; charger, adapter |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
via Finnish jännite
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jännite | voltage; tension |
| 2 | Finnish | jännittää | to tense; to tension; to flex |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |