Where does “nimitysmies” come from?
nimitysmies (Finnish) comes from Finnish nimitys, from Finnish nimittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “nimitysmies”, step by step
nimitysmies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish nimitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nimitys | appointment; designation, denomination |
| 2 | Finnish | nimittää | to assign, appoint; to name, dub, designate |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |