Where does “piilo-oletus” come from?
piilo-oletus (Finnish) comes from Finnish oletus, from Finnish olettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
piilo-oletus (Finnish): hidden assumption, hidden presupposition
Definitions
- hidden assumption, hidden presupposition
Ancestry of “piilo-oletus”, step by step
piilo-oletus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish oletus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | oletus | assumption, supposition; default |
| 2 | Finnish | olettaa | to assume, suppose, presuppose; to premise,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish piilo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | piilo | hideout, lair, covert, hiding place; hidden |
| 2 | Finnish | piillä | to be hidden in, lie in; Adessive singular form... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | piildäk | to hide, to keep hidden |