Where does “viittausapparaatti” come from?
viittausapparaatti (Finnish) comes from Finnish viittaus, from Finnish viitata, from Finnish viitta, from Russian свита, from German Suite, from German -ier, from French -ier, from Middle French -er — he, she.
Ancestry of “viittausapparaatti”, step by step
viittausapparaatti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish viittaus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | viittaus | raise of hand; wave; reference |
| 2 | Finnish | viitata | to point at/to with one's hand; to beckon, wave; to raise one's hand in order to get the floor |
| 3 | Finnish | viitta | sign; cape, cloak |
| 4 | Russian | свита | suite, escort, retinue, entourage; suite |
| 5 | German | Suite | suite hotel apartment consisting of several rooms |
| 6 | German | -ier | A noun-forming suffix, used especially to render... |
| 7 | French | -ier | used to form the names of trees bearing a... |
| 8 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 9 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 14 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Finnish apparaatti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | apparaatti | apparatus such as reference apparatus |
| 2 | German | Apparat | apparatus, device; phone |
| 3 | Latin | apparātus | prepared, having been prepared |
| 4 | Latin | apparō | to prepare or make ready for something, put in order, provide, furnish, equip, organize |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |