Where does “kosketustaulu” come from?
kosketustaulu (Finnish) comes from Finnish kosketus, from Finnish koskettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kosketustaulu (Finnish): smartboard
Ancestry of “kosketustaulu”, step by step
kosketustaulu 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 taulu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | taulu | painting; picture, print etc., especially a... |
| 2 | Swedish | tavla | a painting; piece of painted canvas; a picture... |
| 3 | Latin | tabula | tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *taðlā | board |