Where does “vanhahtavuus” come from?
vanhahtavuus (Finnish) comes from Finnish vanhahtava, from Finnish -ahtava, from Finnish -ähtää, from Proto-Finnic -ahtadak, from Proto-Uralic -ašta-.
vanhahtavuus (Finnish): datedness, archaicness
Definitions
- datedness, archaicness
Ancestry of “vanhahtavuus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vanhahtava | dated, archaic, old-fashioned |
| 2 | Finnish | -ahtava | Forms adjectives with meanings of likeness and similarity: -ish, -y, -esque |
| 3 | Finnish | -ähtää | Front vowel variant of -ahtaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ahtadak | Forms momentane verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ašta- | — |