Where does “palohälytin” come from?
palohälytin (Finnish) comes from Finnish hälytin, from Finnish hälyttää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
palohälytin (Finnish): A fire alarm
Ancestry of “palohälytin”, step by step
palohälytin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish hälytin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hälytin | alarm; First-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Finnish | hälyttää | To alarm |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish Palo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Palo | name of many small places in Finland |
| 2 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *palo | — |