Where does “jännitysmomentti” come from?
jännitysmomentti (Finnish) comes from Finnish momentti, from Swedish moment, from Latin mōmentum, from Latin mōvimentum, from Latin -mentum, from Latin -menta, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.
jännitysmomentti (Finnish): moment of suspense, something causing suspense
Definitions
- moment of suspense, something causing suspense
Ancestry of “jännitysmomentti”, step by step
jännitysmomentti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish momentti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | momentti | a moment, phase, point, element; moment; A... |
| 2 | Swedish | moment | a step in a process |
| 3 | Latin | mōmentum | movement, motion, impulse; course |
| 4 | Latin | mōvimentum | movement |
| 5 | Latin | -mentum | instrument, medium, or result of; e.g.... |
| 6 | Latin | -menta | nominative plural of -mentum; accusative plural... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -mn̥ | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs |
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- | — |