Where does “maakaasuputki” come from?
maakaasuputki (Finnish) comes from Finnish maakaasu, from Finnish mää, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
maakaasuputki (Finnish): natural gas pipeline
Ancestry of “maakaasuputki”, step by step
maakaasuputki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish maakaasu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | maakaasu | natural gas |
| 2 | Finnish | mää | baa; I |
| 3 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 4 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |
via Finnish putki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | putki | tube, pipe; duct, conduit; barrel |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | pucki | plant with a hollow stem, especially various plants of genus Angelica |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | pučke | hollow plant stalk |