I am not entirely sure what you want to tell us here
cKyTV on
I’m worried about Stunde, a good guy and doesn’t deserve all the hate
Valokoura on
Das auto -> auto
Die katze -> katti (=kissa)
tsoneyson on
Akku = Akku
Alderzone on
Oh yeah? King is a germanic word but we have kept it close to the original proto-germanic ‘kuningaz’.
Meanwhile, king, kung, könig, konge..
Lumeton on
The word “tunti” was not borrowed from “die Stunde” but from the Swedish cognate “stund.” The word was borrowed at a time when Finnish did not have consonant clusters at the beginning of words (they’re still relatively rare outside often mispronounced loanwords and certain slangs). Either the “s” or the “t” had to be dropped > “tund.” D didn’t belong to the native phonology either, so it changed to t > “tunt”. As a strongly inflected language, Finnish nouns still cannot naturally end in a consonant (if they do, like in names, they behave just as if they’d an i at the end). An i was added, after which morphemes could be added > “tunti”.
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Seems optimised to me
I am not entirely sure what you want to tell us here
I’m worried about Stunde, a good guy and doesn’t deserve all the hate
Das auto -> auto
Die katze -> katti (=kissa)
Akku = Akku
Oh yeah? King is a germanic word but we have kept it close to the original proto-germanic ‘kuningaz’.
Meanwhile, king, kung, könig, konge..
The word “tunti” was not borrowed from “die Stunde” but from the Swedish cognate “stund.” The word was borrowed at a time when Finnish did not have consonant clusters at the beginning of words (they’re still relatively rare outside often mispronounced loanwords and certain slangs). Either the “s” or the “t” had to be dropped > “tund.” D didn’t belong to the native phonology either, so it changed to t > “tunt”. As a strongly inflected language, Finnish nouns still cannot naturally end in a consonant (if they do, like in names, they behave just as if they’d an i at the end). An i was added, after which morphemes could be added > “tunti”.
Completely logical.