Where does “jännityskirja” come from?
jännityskirja (Finnish) comes from Finnish jännitys, from Finnish jännittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
jännityskirja (Finnish): thriller book, suspense book, mystery book
Definitions
- thriller book, suspense book, mystery book
Ancestry of “jännityskirja”, step by step
jännityskirja 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- | — |