Where does “valvontatutka” come from?
valvontatutka (Finnish) comes from Finnish valvonta, from Finnish valvoa, from Finnish -oa, from Proto-Finnic -odak, from Proto-Uralic -w-.
valvontatutka (Finnish): surveillance radar
Ancestry of “valvontatutka”, step by step
valvontatutka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish valvonta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | valvonta | monitoring, surveillance; supervision; control |
| 2 | Finnish | valvoa | to stay up, stay awake; to oversee, supervise,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -oa | Forms frequentative verbs, primarily from nouns... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -odak | Forms some verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -w- | — |
via Finnish tutka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tutka | radar |
| 2 | Finnish | tutkia | to examine, investigate; to research; Partitive... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ia | Forms primarily transitive verbs describing... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -idak | applicative suffix |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j- | — |
Words derived from “valvontatutka”