Where does “kosketusaisti” come from?
kosketusaisti (Finnish) comes from Finnish kosketus, from Finnish koskettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kosketusaisti (Finnish): sense of touch
Ancestry of “kosketusaisti”, step by step
kosketusaisti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kosketus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kosketus | A touch; contact |
| 2 | Finnish | koskettaa | to touch; to affect |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish aisti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | aisti | sense; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Finnish | haisti | olfaction; the sense of smell |
| 3 | Finnish | haistaa | to sniff, smell; to scent, smell/nose out, get... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | haistadak | to smell |