Where does “värinänvaimennin” come from?
värinänvaimennin (Finnish) comes from Finnish vaimennin, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.
värinänvaimennin (Finnish): harmonic balancer
Ancestry of “värinänvaimennin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | vaimennin | silencer; damper; snubber |
| 2 | Finnish | -in | Suffix variant for the illative singular, see... |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *-in | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |