Where does “uutispimento” come from?
uutispimento (Finnish) comes from Finnish pimento, from Finnish pimentää, from Finnish pimetä, from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
uutispimento (Finnish): news blackout, media blackout
Definitions
- news blackout, media blackout
Ancestry of “uutispimento”, step by step
uutispimento traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pimento
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pimento | dark, darkness |
| 2 | Finnish | pimentää | to darken |
| 3 | Finnish | pimetä | to darken, to get dark |
| 4 | Finnish | -etä | Front vowel variant of -eta |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -t'ak | Forms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |