Where does “läpilyöntijännite” come from?
läpilyöntijännite (Finnish) comes from Finnish läpilyönti, from Finnish läpi, from Tagalog lapi, from Spanish lápiz, from Italian lapis, from Latin lapis, from Proto-Italic *lapets — stone.
läpilyöntijännite (Finnish): breakdown voltage
Definitions
- breakdown voltage
Ancestry of “läpilyöntijännite”, step by step
läpilyöntijännite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish läpilyönti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | läpilyönti | breakdown situation where current flows through an insulator when voltage exceeds the breakdown voltage |
| 2 | Finnish | läpi | hole window, shutter, door; mouth, hole; through |
| 3 | Tagalog | lapi | joining or attaching a part to a whole; affix |
| 4 | Spanish | lápiz | pencil |
| 5 | Italian | lapis | pencil; sanguine |
| 6 | Latin | lapis | a stone; a milestone; a boundary stone |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *lapets | stone |
via Finnish jännite
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jännite | voltage; tension |
| 2 | Finnish | jännittää | to tense; to tension; to flex |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |