Where does “lämpötila-asteikko” come from?
lämpötila-asteikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish lämpötila, from Finnish lämpö, from Finnish -o, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.
lämpötila-asteikko (Finnish): temperature scale
Ancestry of “lämpötila-asteikko”, step by step
lämpötila-asteikko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lämpötila
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lämpötila | temperature |
| 2 | Finnish | lämpö | warmth, heat; heat; fever |
| 3 | Finnish | -o | Forms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |
via Finnish asteikko
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | asteikko | scale |
| 2 | Finnish | -ikko | Forms nouns for groups of a particular number,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ikko | Forms nouns indicating a group of things |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -i- | Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive) |