Where does “myöhäisohjelma” come from?
myöhäisohjelma (Finnish) comes from Finnish ohjelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
myöhäisohjelma (Finnish): late-night program
Ancestry of “myöhäisohjelma”, step by step
myöhäisohjelma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ohjelma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ohjelma | program, programme; software, program; show |
| 2 | Finnish | -lma | Forms nouns, mostly from verbs |
| 3 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |
via Finnish myöhäinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | myöhäinen | late |
| 2 | Finnish | myöhä | late |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | mööhä | late |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | möö | Alternative form of *mek |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | müŋä | rear, beyond; space behind something |