Where does “keskussuoritin” come from?
keskussuoritin (Finnish) comes from Finnish suoritin, from Finnish suorittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
keskussuoritin (Finnish): central processing unit
Definitions
- central processing unit
Ancestry of “keskussuoritin”, step by step
keskussuoritin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish suoritin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | suoritin | processor, microprocessor; First-person singular... |
| 2 | Finnish | suorittaa | to perform, carry out, fulfill, execute, run |
| 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- | — |