Where does “jännityselokuva” come from?
jännityselokuva (Finnish) comes from Finnish jännitys, from Finnish jännittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
jännityselokuva (Finnish): thriller film
Definitions
- thriller film
Ancestry of “jännityselokuva”, step by step
jännityselokuva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish jännitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jännitys | excitement; suspension; 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 elokuva
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | elokuva | movie; cinema; in plural also movies, cinema |
| 2 | Finnish | kuva | picture; image; photograph, photo |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | skuwwô | reflection, mirror image; shadow |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱeh₃w-ō ~ (s)ḱuh₃-nés | shadow, reflection |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |