Where does “valoärsyke” come from?
valoärsyke (Finnish) comes from Finnish ärsyke, from Finnish ärsyttää, from Finnish ärtyä, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from English thou, from English thousand, from Middle English thousend — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
valoärsyke (Finnish): light stimulus
Definitions
- light stimulus
Ancestry of “valoärsyke”, step by step
valoärsyke traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ärsyke
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ärsyke | stimulus; irritant |
| 2 | Finnish | ärsyttää | to irritate, annoy mentally and/or physically; to bother, exasperate, irk, rub someone the wrong way mentally |
| 3 | Finnish | ärtyä | to get inflamed; to become irritated, ired |
| 4 | Finnish | -tua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 5 | Ido | tu | you singular, thou |
| 6 | English | thou | Nominative singular of ye; To address using the... |
| 7 | English | thousand | A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10 |
| 8 | Middle English | thousend | A thousand; 1000 |
| 9 | Old English | þūsend | thousand |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | þūsundi | thousand |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | þūsundī | a thousand |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | tuHsont- | thousand |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |