Where does “liukuluku” come from?

liukuluku (Finnish) comes from Finnish luku, from Proto-Finnic luku, from Proto-Finnic lukedak, from Proto-Uralic luke-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

liukuluku (Finnish): floating-point number

Definitions

  1. floating-point number

Ancestry of “liukuluku”, step by step

liukuluku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish luku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlukunumber, count, quantity; chapter; reading
2Proto-Finniclukunumber, quantity
3Proto-Finniclukedakto count; to read ?
4Proto-Uralicluke-to count
5Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

via Finnish liuku

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

Words derived from “liukuluku”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- →