Where does “liotusaine” come from?
liotusaine (Finnish) comes from Finnish liotus, from Finnish liottaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
liotusaine (Finnish): soaking agent
Ancestry of “liotusaine”, step by step
liotusaine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish liotus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liotus | soaking |
| 2 | Finnish | liottaa | to soak; to ret |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish aine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | aine | matter, material, substance; subject, discipline;... |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | abniją | That which is made; material; stuff |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | *abnijaną | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ōp- | to achieve |