Where does “pintaliitos” come from?
pintaliitos (Finnish) comes from Finnish liitos, from Finnish liittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
pintaliitos (Finnish): surface mounting
Ancestry of “pintaliitos”, step by step
pintaliitos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish liitos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liitos | joint; union; bond |
| 2 | Finnish | liittää | to join, connect, attach, fasten; to attach,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish pinta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pinta | surface |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | pinta | surface; sapwood; fat |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | spindaz | fat; lard; grease; smear; marrow |