Where does “kiitotiekosketus” come from?

kiitotiekosketus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kosketus, from Finnish koskettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

kiitotiekosketus (Finnish): touchdown, setdown moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first contact with the ground during a landing

Definitions

  1. touchdown, setdown moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first contact with the ground during a landing

Ancestry of “kiitotiekosketus”, step by step

kiitotiekosketus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kosketus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishkosketusA touch; contact
2Finnishkoskettaato touch; to affect
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish kiitotie

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiitotierunway
2Finnishtieway; road; avenue
3Proto-Finnicteeway, road
4Proto-Uralictejeway, road, path
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →