Where does “liuotinmolekyyli” come from?
liuotinmolekyyli (Finnish) comes from Finnish liuotin, from Finnish liuottaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
liuotinmolekyyli (Finnish): solvent molecule
Ancestry of “liuotinmolekyyli”, step by step
liuotinmolekyyli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish liuotin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liuotin | A solvent; First-person singular indicative past... |
| 2 | Finnish | liuottaa | To dissolve |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish molekyyli
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | molekyyli | A molecule |
| 2 | French | molécule | molecule |
| 3 | New Latin | molecula | a molecule; molecule |
| 4 | Latin | mōlēs | multitude, mass (of material) |