Where does “tyhjäkäyntimoottori” come from?
tyhjäkäyntimoottori (Finnish) comes from Finnish moottori, from Swedish motor, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
tyhjäkäyntimoottori (Finnish): idle control valve, idle air control valve
Definitions
- idle control valve, idle air control valve
Ancestry of “tyhjäkäyntimoottori”, step by step
tyhjäkäyntimoottori traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish moottori
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | moottori | engine, motor |
| 2 | Swedish | motor | engine, motor |
| 3 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
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 |