Where does “kake” come from?

kake (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaukosäädin, from Finnish säädin, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

kake (Finnish): remote control

Definitions

  1. remote control

Ancestry of “kake”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaukosäädinremote control
2Finnishsäädincontroller; remote control; regulator
3Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
4Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in
5Proto-Uralic-ma
Every word from Proto-Uralic -maEvery word from Finnish -inEvery word from Finnish säädin
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