Where does “laskettelukenkä” come from?
laskettelukenkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish laskettelu, from Finnish lasketella, from Finnish laskettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
laskettelukenkä (Finnish): downhill ski boot
Definitions
- downhill ski boot
Ancestry of “laskettelukenkä”, step by step
laskettelukenkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish laskettelu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | laskettelu | downhill, downhill skiing, alpine skiing |
| 2 | Finnish | lasketella | to rattle off; to do slalom skiing |
| 3 | Finnish | laskettaa | to have (something) calculated, make (someone) calculate (something) |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |