Where does “osoitintappi” come from?
osoitintappi (Finnish) comes from Finnish osoitin, from Finnish osoittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
osoitintappi (Finnish): pointing stick
Ancestry of “osoitintappi”, step by step
osoitintappi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish osoitin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | osoitin | pointer; pointer, cursor; indicator |
| 2 | Finnish | osoittaa | to show; to indicate; to point |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish tappi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tappi | peg; tap, spigot; plug |
| 2 | Swedish | tapp | cone cell |
| 3 | Swedish | täppa | to block or obstruct a passage, "e.g." a leak |
| 4 | Old Norse | tapa | to lose |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | tappōną | to tap |