Where does “ohjelmanvalitsin” come from?
ohjelmanvalitsin (Finnish) comes from Finnish ohjelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
ohjelmanvalitsin (Finnish): program selector
Ancestry of “ohjelmanvalitsin”, step by step
ohjelmanvalitsin 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 valitsin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | valitsin | dial, selector; switch; selector |
| 2 | Finnish | valita | to choose, select, elect; Indicative present... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | valit'ak | to choose, to pick, to select |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | waljaną | to choose, to pick, to select |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | welh₁- | to choose; to want |