Where does “vakoiluohjelma” come from?
vakoiluohjelma (Finnish) comes from Finnish ohjelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
vakoiluohjelma (Finnish): spyware
Ancestry of “vakoiluohjelma”, step by step
vakoiluohjelma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ohjelma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ohjelma | program, programme; software, program; show |
| 2 | Finnish | -lma | Forms nouns, mostly from verbs |
| 3 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |
via Finnish vakoilu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vakoilu | espionage, spying |
| 2 | Finnish | -u | Forms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -u | Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns |