Where does “selitysvoima” come from?
selitysvoima (Finnish) comes from Finnish selitys, from Finnish selittää, from Finnish selitä, from Finnish selkeä, from Proto-Finnic selkedä — clear.
selitysvoima (Finnish): explanatory power
Ancestry of “selitysvoima”, step by step
selitysvoima traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish selitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | selitys | explanation; excuse |
| 2 | Finnish | selittää | to explain; to explicate |
| 3 | Finnish | selitä | to clear; Indicative present connegative form of... |
| 4 | Finnish | selkeä | clear, sunny; Up to 1/8 covered by clouds; clear |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | selkedä | clear |
via Finnish voima
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | voima | power, strength, force, might; force; power |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | voima | power, strength, force, might |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |