Where does “vaihtovastaventtiili” come from?
vaihtovastaventtiili (Finnish) comes from Finnish vastaventtiili, from Finnish venttiili, from Swedish ventil, from German Ventil, from Latin ventilō, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic wentos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂wéh₁n̥ts — to blow.
vaihtovastaventtiili (Finnish): shuttle valve
Definitions
- shuttle valve
Ancestry of “vaihtovastaventtiili”, step by step
vaihtovastaventtiili traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vastaventtiili
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vastaventtiili | check valve |
| 2 | Finnish | venttiili | valve |
| 3 | Swedish | ventil | valve; air inlet or outlet; porthole, a round... |
| 4 | German | Ventil | valve |
| 5 | Latin | ventilō | to toss, swing, brandish in the air |
| 6 | Latin | ventus | a wind; arrival |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | wentos | wind |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wéh₁n̥ts | blowing; that which blows; the wind, air |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wḗh₁ti | to blow |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weh₁- | to blow |
via Finnish vaihto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vaihto | exchange; swap; shift key |
| 2 | Finnish | vaihtaa | to change, replace; to exchange, switch; to swap |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vaihtadak | to change |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |