Where does “virityskuva” come from?
virityskuva (Finnish) comes from Finnish viritys, from Finnish virittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
virityskuva (Finnish): test pattern, test card test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no programme is being broadcast
Definitions
- test pattern, test card test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no programme is being broadcast
Ancestry of “virityskuva”, step by step
virityskuva traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish viritys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | viritys | tuning; spanning; makeshift solution, MacGyvering |
| 2 | Finnish | virittää | to tune; to voice; to tune in |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish kuva
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuva | picture; image; photograph, photo |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | skuwwô | reflection, mirror image; shadow |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱeh₃w-ō ~ (s)ḱuh₃-nés | shadow, reflection |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |