Where does “tosisuuntima” come from?
tosisuuntima (Finnish) comes from Finnish suuntima, from Finnish suuntia, from Finnish ia, from Finnish ja, from Proto-Finnic ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.
tosisuuntima (Finnish): true bearing angle to a target relative to the north line
Definitions
- true bearing angle to a target relative to the north line
Ancestry of “tosisuuntima”, step by step
tosisuuntima traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish suuntima
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | suuntima | bearing |
| 2 | Finnish | suuntia | to take the bearings; Partitive plural form of... |
| 3 | Finnish | ia | Obsolete spelling of ja |
| 4 | Finnish | ja | and; AND |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | ja | and |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |