Where does “pudotusvasara” come from?
pudotusvasara (Finnish) comes from Finnish pudotus, from Finnish pudottaa, from Finnish pudota, from Proto-Finnic pudot'ak — to fall off.
pudotusvasara (Finnish): drop hammer
Ancestry of “pudotusvasara”, step by step
pudotusvasara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pudotus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pudotus | fall; act of dropping; dropdown |
| 2 | Finnish | pudottaa | To drop |
| 3 | Finnish | pudota | to fall (from an elevated position); to fall down, fall off; to drop, slip |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | pudot'ak | to fall off |
via Finnish vasara
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vasara | hammer; malleus, hammer |
| 2 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 3 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |