Where does “litsiliitos” come from?
litsiliitos (Finnish) comes from Finnish liitos, from Finnish liittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “litsiliitos”, step by step
litsiliitos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish liitos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liitos | joint; union; bond |
| 2 | Finnish | liittää | to join, connect, attach, fasten; to attach,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish litsi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | litsi | lychee |
| 2 | Swedish | slits | slit, slot |
| 3 | German | Schlitz | slit, slash; groove |
| 4 | Old High German | sliz | — |