Where does “painottomuus” come from?

painottomuus (Finnish) comes from Finnish painoton, from Finnish -tön, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.

painottomuus (Finnish): weightlessness, zero gravity

Definitions

  1. weightlessness, zero gravity

Ancestry of “painottomuus”, step by step

painottomuus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish painoton

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpainotonweightless; unstressed
2Finnish-tönFront vowel variant of -ton
3Proto-Finnic-t'oin-less
4Proto-Uralic-ktama—

via Finnish uus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishuusAlternative form of uusi
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ktama →Every word from Finnish -tön →Every word from Proto-Finnic -t'oin →