Where does “piilonapitus” come from?
piilonapitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish napitus, from Finnish napittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
piilonapitus (Finnish): hidden buttons, hidden buttoning
Definitions
- hidden buttons, hidden buttoning
Ancestry of “piilonapitus”, step by step
piilonapitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish napitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | napitus | buttoning |
| 2 | Finnish | napittaa | To button; To stare |
| 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 |