Where does “lähetinputki” come from?
lähetinputki (Finnish) comes from Finnish lähetin, from Finnish lähettää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
lähetinputki (Finnish): transmitting vacuum tube
Ancestry of “lähetinputki”, step by step
lähetinputki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lähetin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lähetin | transmitter; First-person singular indicative... |
| 2 | Finnish | lähettää | to send; to dispatch; to ship |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish putki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | putki | tube, pipe; duct, conduit; barrel |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | pucki | plant with a hollow stem, especially various plants of genus Angelica |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | pučke | hollow plant stalk |