Where does “kuuntelutottumus” come from?

kuuntelutottumus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tottumus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

kuuntelutottumus (Finnish): listening habit

Definitions

  1. listening habit

Ancestry of “kuuntelutottumus”, step by step

kuuntelutottumus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tottumus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtottumushabit, custom, routine
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma

via Finnish kuuntelu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuuntelulistening
2Finnishkuunnellato listen; to listen in, eavesdrop; often with...
3Proto-Finnickundeldakto listen (to)
4Proto-Finno-Ugrickontale-
Every word from Proto-Uralic -maEvery word from Proto-Finnic -maEvery word from Finnish -mus