Where does “keilain” come from?

keilain (Finnish) comes from Finnish keilata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

keilain (Finnish): a device that casts a searchlight, laser or other light

Definitions

  1. a device that casts a searchlight, laser or other light

Ancestry of “keilain”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkeilatato bowl; to cast light; to scan
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom

Words derived from “keilain”

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