Where does “kuristusote” come from?
kuristusote (Finnish) comes from Finnish ote, from Finnish ottaa, from Proto-Finnic vottadak, from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- — to wind, to turn.
kuristusote (Finnish): stranglehold, chokehold
Ancestry of “kuristusote”, step by step
kuristusote traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ote
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ote | grasp, grip; approach, mindset; citation,... |
| 2 | Finnish | ottaa | to take; to take, ingest or drink; to deprive of,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vottadak | to take |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wendʰ- | to wind, to turn |
via Finnish kuristus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuristus | strangling, choking |
| 2 | Finnish | -us | Forms nouns from verbs, describing an action or... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -us | Forms some nouns from nominal stems |