Where does “kaasusumutin” come from?
kaasusumutin (Finnish) comes from Finnish sumutin, from Finnish sumuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kaasusumutin (Finnish): gas sprayer
Ancestry of “kaasusumutin”, step by step
kaasusumutin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish sumutin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sumutin | sprayer; First-person singular indicative past... |
| 2 | Finnish | sumuttaa | to spray, mist; to mislead |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish kaasu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kaasu | gas; gas pedal; "olla kaasussa": to be drunk |
| 2 | Proto-Uralic | käsä | dew |