Where does “palohälytys” come from?
palohälytys (Finnish) comes from Finnish hälytys, from Finnish hälyttää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
palohälytys (Finnish): A fire alarm
Ancestry of “palohälytys”, step by step
palohälytys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish hälytys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hälytys | alarm; alarm, alert |
| 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 | — |
Words derived from “palohälytys”