Where does “painovoimakenttä” come from?
painovoimakenttä (Finnish) comes from Finnish painovoima, from Finnish voima, from Proto-Finnic voima, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.
painovoimakenttä (Finnish): gravitational field
Ancestry of “painovoimakenttä”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | painovoima | gravity |
| 2 | Finnish | voima | power, strength, force, might; force; power |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | voima | power, strength, force, might |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |