Where does “lyhennemerkki” come from?

lyhennemerkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish lyhenne, from Finnish lyhentää, from Finnish lyhetä, from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

lyhennemerkki (Finnish): abbreviation symbol, abbreviation siglum

Definitions

  1. abbreviation symbol, abbreviation siglum

Ancestry of “lyhennemerkki”, step by step

lyhennemerkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lyhenne

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishlyhenneAn abbreviation
2Finnishlyhentääto shorten; to abbreviate; to reduce or pay back...
3FinnishlyhetäTo shorten, to become shorter
4Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
5Proto-Finnic-t'akForms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning
6Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

via Finnish merkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmerkkimark, sign; character; symbol
2Old Swedishmærki
3Old Norsemerkiboundary
4Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta-Every word from Finnish -etäEvery word from Proto-Finnic -t'ak