Where does “kosketuslevy” come from?
kosketuslevy (Finnish) comes from Finnish kosketus, from Finnish koskettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kosketuslevy (Finnish): touchpad, trackpad
Ancestry of “kosketuslevy”, step by step
kosketuslevy 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 levy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | levy | plate; board; slab |
| 2 | Finnish | -u | Forms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -u | Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns |