Where does “pitkäjännitteinen” come from?
pitkäjännitteinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish jännite, from Finnish jännittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “pitkäjännitteinen”, step by step
pitkäjännitteinen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish jännite
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jännite | voltage; tension |
| 2 | Finnish | jännittää | to tense; to tension; to flex |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |