Where does “savuhälytin” come from?
savuhälytin (Finnish) comes from Finnish hälytin, from Finnish hälyttää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
savuhälytin (Finnish): A smoke alarm
Ancestry of “savuhälytin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | hälytin | alarm; First-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Finnish | hälyttää | To alarm |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |