Where does “viritystaso” come from?
viritystaso (Finnish) comes from Finnish viritys, from Finnish virittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
viritystaso (Finnish): tuning level, tuning pitch, concert pitch
Definitions
- tuning level, tuning pitch, concert pitch
Ancestry of “viritystaso”, step by step
viritystaso 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- | — |