Where does “silityskone” come from?
silityskone (Finnish) comes from Finnish silitys, from Finnish silittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
silityskone (Finnish): ironing machine machine used to iron clothes
Definitions
- ironing machine machine used to iron clothes
Ancestry of “silityskone”, step by step
silityskone traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish silitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | silitys | A stroke; ironing |
| 2 | Finnish | silittää | to stroke, to pet, to fondle; to iron |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |