Where does “jännitteenkoetin” come from?
jännitteenkoetin (Finnish) comes from Finnish jännite, from Finnish jännittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
jännitteenkoetin (Finnish): voltage tester
Definitions
- voltage tester
Ancestry of “jännitteenkoetin”, step by step
jännitteenkoetin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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- | — |
via Finnish koetin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | koetin | sound, probe; explorer; First-person singular... |
| 2 | Finnish | koettaa | To feel, touch; To try, test, check; To try,... |
| 3 | Finnish | kokea | to experience, undergo; to suffer; ~ verkko = to... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | kokedak | to (go) take a look at |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | koke- | see |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ekʷ- | to see; eye |