Where does “venttiilinnostin” come from?
venttiilinnostin (Finnish) comes from Finnish venttiili, from Swedish ventil, from German Ventil, from Latin ventilō, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic wentos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂wéh₁n̥ts, from Proto-Indo-European h₂wḗh₁ti — to blow.
venttiilinnostin (Finnish): valve tappet, cam follower in an internal combustion engine, a mechanism that transfers the movement of the camshaft to the gas exchange valves on the cylinders, lifting and closing them at exactly the right moment
Definitions
- valve tappet, cam follower in an internal combustion engine, a mechanism that transfers the movement of the camshaft to the gas exchange valves on the cylinders, lifting and closing them at exactly the right moment
Ancestry of “venttiilinnostin”, step by step
venttiilinnostin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish venttiili
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | venttiili | valve |
| 2 | Swedish | ventil | valve; air inlet or outlet; porthole, a round... |
| 3 | German | Ventil | valve |
| 4 | Latin | ventilō | to toss, swing, brandish in the air |
| 5 | Latin | ventus | a wind; arrival |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | wentos | wind |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wéh₁n̥ts | blowing; that which blows; the wind, air |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wḗh₁ti | to blow |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weh₁- | to blow |
via Finnish nostin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nostin | lifter; tappet; halyard |
| 2 | Finnish | nostaa | to lift, raise, elevate; to hoist; to push up |
| 3 | Finnish | -iäinen | Front vowel variant of -iainen |
| 4 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 5 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |