Where does “lyhennysmerkki” come from?

lyhennysmerkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish lyhennys, 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...

lyhennysmerkki (Finnish): abbreviation dash through the stem of a note

Definitions

  1. abbreviation dash through the stem of a note

Ancestry of “lyhennysmerkki”, step by step

lyhennysmerkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lyhennys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlyhennysshortening; abbreviation; payment
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