Where does “kulmalainausmerkki” come from?
kulmalainausmerkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish lainausmerkki, from Finnish lainaus, from Finnish lainata, from Finnish -ata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.
kulmalainausmerkki (Finnish): A guillemet
Ancestry of “kulmalainausmerkki”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | lainausmerkki | quotation mark, quote; ditto mark, or shortly... |
| 2 | Finnish | lainaus | lending, borrowing; quotation, quote; speech |
| 3 | Finnish | lainata | to loan, lend; to borrow; to cite, quote |
| 4 | Finnish | -ata | Derives verbs |
| 5 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | — |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | |