Where does “ruuviliitos” come from?
ruuviliitos (Finnish) comes from Finnish liitos, from Finnish liittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
ruuviliitos (Finnish): screw fitting, screw fixation
Definitions
- screw fitting, screw fixation
Ancestry of “ruuviliitos”, step by step
ruuviliitos 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 ruuvi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ruuvi | screw |
| 2 | Middle Low German | schrūve | screw machine |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱer- | dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth |