Where does “nukutusaine” come from?
nukutusaine (Finnish) comes from Finnish nukutus, from Finnish nukuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
nukutusaine (Finnish): anesthetic
Ancestry of “nukutusaine”, step by step
nukutusaine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish nukutus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nukutus | general anesthesia |
| 2 | Finnish | nukuttaa | "partitive" + 3rd-pers. singular = to feel... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish aine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | aine | matter, material, substance; subject, discipline;... |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | abniją | That which is made; material; stuff |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | *abnijaną | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ōp- | to achieve |