Where does “levytanssit” come from?

levytanssit (Finnish) comes from Finnish levy, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

levytanssit (Finnish): dance event with music played from a disc or record

Definitions

  1. dance event with music played from a disc or record

Ancestry of “levytanssit”, step by step

levytanssit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish levy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlevyplate; board; slab
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

via Finnish tanssit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanssitdance social event
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish levy →