Where does “kosketusnäyttö” come from?
kosketusnäyttö (Finnish) comes from Finnish kosketus, from Finnish koskettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kosketusnäyttö (Finnish): touch screen
Ancestry of “kosketusnäyttö”, step by step
kosketusnäyttö 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 näyttö
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | näyttö | monitor, display, screen; showing; evidence |
| 2 | Finnish | näyttää | to show, present; to seem to do, appear to do; to... |
| 3 | Finnish | näkyä | To be visible, be seen, show; To be... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | näküdäk | to be visible, to be seen |