Where does “ponttiliitos” come from?
ponttiliitos (Finnish) comes from Finnish liitos, from Finnish liittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
ponttiliitos (Finnish): tongue and groove joint
Ancestry of “ponttiliitos”, step by step
ponttiliitos 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 pontti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pontti | tongue and groove |
| 2 | Swedish | spont | slat, tongue part of a board or plank which fits into a groove |