Where does “tyhjäkäyntijännite” come from?
tyhjäkäyntijännite (Finnish) comes from Finnish jännite, from Finnish jännittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
tyhjäkäyntijännite (Finnish): no-load voltage
Definitions
- no-load voltage
Ancestry of “tyhjäkäyntijännite”, step by step
tyhjäkäyntijännite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish jännite
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jännite | voltage; tension |
| 2 | Finnish | jännittää | to tense; to tension; to flex |
| 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- | — |
via Finnish tyhjäkäynti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tyhjäkäynti | idling of an engine: state of running at a slow speed, or out of gear |
| 2 | Finnish | tyhjä | empty; blank; void |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | tühjä | empty |
| 4 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | tuskjas | empty |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | tews- | to be empty; to drain; to be happy |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | tu- | to swell; bird-cry, shriek |