Where does “jonotuspuhelin” come from?

jonotuspuhelin (Finnish) comes from Finnish puhelin, from Finnish puhella, from Finnish puhua, from Proto-Finnic puhudak, from Proto-Uralic puše- — blow.

jonotuspuhelin (Finnish): call-queuing telephone telephone system which allows the incoming phone calls to remain in a queue while the previous callers are being attended

Definitions

  1. call-queuing telephone telephone system which allows the incoming phone calls to remain in a queue while the previous callers are being attended

Ancestry of “jonotuspuhelin”, step by step

jonotuspuhelin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish puhelin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpuhelintelephone, phone; Short for puhelinnumero;...
2FinnishpuhellaTo chatter
3FinnishpuhuaTo talk; To speak
4Proto-Finnicpuhudakto blow
5Proto-Uralicpuše-blow

via Finnish jonotus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjonotusqueuing
2Finnishjonottaato queue; third-person singular present...
3Finnishjonoline, queue straight sequence of people or items
4Finnishjuoniplot, design; scheme, conspiracy; storyline, plot
5Proto-Finnicjoonipath
Every word from Proto-Uralic puše- →Every word from Proto-Finnic puhudak →Every word from Finnish puhua →