Where does “lainausmerkki” come from?

lainausmerkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish lainaus, from Finnish lainata, from Finnish -ata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

lainausmerkki (Finnish): quotation mark, quote; ditto mark, or shortly...

Definitions

  1. quotation mark, quote; ditto mark, or shortly...

Ancestry of “lainausmerkki”, step by step

lainausmerkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lainaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlainauslending, borrowing; quotation, quote; speech
2Finnishlainatato loan, lend; to borrow; to cite, quote
3Finnish-ataDerives verbs
4Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish merkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmerkkimark, sign; character; symbol
2Old Swedishmærki—
3Old Norsemerkiboundary
4Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border

Words derived from “lainausmerkki”

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