Where does “jännitevahvistin” come from?

jännitevahvistin (Finnish) comes from Finnish jännite, from Finnish jännittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

jännitevahvistin (Finnish): voltage amplifier

Definitions

  1. voltage amplifier

Ancestry of “jännitevahvistin”, step by step

jännitevahvistin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish jännite

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjännitevoltage; tension
2Finnishjännittääto tense; to tension; to flex
3Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
4Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-

via Finnish vahvistin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvahvistinamplifier; First-person singular indicative past...
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in
4Proto-Uralic-ma
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta-Every word from Finnish -ttääEvery word from Finnish -ittaa