Where does “ohutlevy” come from?

ohutlevy (Finnish) comes from Finnish ohut, from Proto-Finnic ohut, from Proto-Finnic oha.

ohutlevy (Finnish): sheet metal

Definitions

  1. sheet metal

Ancestry of “ohutlevy”, step by step

ohutlevy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ohut

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishohutthin
2Proto-Finnicohutthin
3Proto-Finnicoha—

via Finnish levy

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlevyplate; board; slab
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finnic oha →Every word from Proto-Finnic ohut →Every word from Finnish ohut →
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