Where does “kuivatusaine” come from?
kuivatusaine (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuivatus, from Finnish kuivattaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kuivatusaine (Finnish): drier, siccative
Ancestry of “kuivatusaine”, step by step
kuivatusaine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kuivatus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuivatus | drying the action of drying or making dry |
| 2 | Finnish | kuivattaa | to dry |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish aine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | aine | matter, material, substance; subject, discipline;... |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | abniją | That which is made; material; stuff |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | *abnijaną | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ōp- | to achieve |