Where does “yllätysmomentti” come from?

yllätysmomentti (Finnish) comes from Finnish yllätys, from Finnish yllättää, from Finnish yltää, from Finnish ylä-, from Finnish alhaalla, from Finnish ala-, from Proto-Finnic ala, from Proto-Uralic ëla — below.

yllätysmomentti (Finnish): element of surprise

Definitions

  1. element of surprise

Ancestry of “yllätysmomentti”, step by step

yllätysmomentti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish yllätys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishyllätyssurprise; Second-person singular imperative...
2Finnishyllättääto surprise, astonish, take unawares/by surprise;...
3FinnishyltääTo reach; To be/come up to
4Finnishylä-upper; superior, high, higher
5Finnishalhaalladown below, below; down (here/there)
6Finnishala-under-, sub-, lower, nether; inferior
7Proto-Finnicalalower; under
8Proto-Uralicëlabelow

via Finnish momentti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmomenttia moment, phase, point, element; moment; A...
2Swedishmomenta step in a process
3Latinmōmentummovement, motion, impulse; course
4Latinmōvimentummovement
5Latin-mentuminstrument, medium, or result of; e.g....
6Latin-mentanominative plural of -mentum; accusative plural...
7Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Uralic ëlaEvery word from Finnish ala-Every word from Proto-Finnic ala