Where does “tenttikausi” come from?
tenttikausi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tentti, from Swedish tentamen, from Latin tentamen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
tenttikausi (Finnish): exam period, exam season
Ancestry of “tenttikausi”, step by step
tenttikausi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tentti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tentti | examination; Third-person singular indicative... |
| 2 | Swedish | tentamen | an examination |
| 3 | Latin | tentamen | an attempt; a literary attempt: an essay |
| 4 | Latin | -men | forms neuter nouns of the third declension |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-mn̥ | — |
via Finnish kausi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kausi | period, age, epoch, season; term; period |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | kauci | (section of a) road, way, path; part of a journey |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Permic | kawte | road? way? passage ? |