Where does “laskumäki” come from?
laskumäki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Mäki, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.
laskumäki (Finnish): hump or hill used in hump shunting or fly shunting
Definitions
- hump or hill used in hump shunting or fly shunting
Ancestry of “laskumäki”, step by step
laskumäki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Mäki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Mäki | Any of a number of small places in Finland |
| 2 | Finnish | -lä | Front vowel variant of -la |
| 3 | Finnish | -as | Forms some adjectives; Forms some nouns |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -s | Forms nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | -s | — |
via Finnish lasku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lasku | descent, an instance of descending, sliding down... |
| 2 | Votic | laskõa | to let go, let loose, release |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | laskedak | to drop, to fall; to release; to let, to allow |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | laćke- | — |
Words derived from “laskumäki”