laskin etymology

Finnish word laskin comes from Finnish laskea, Finnish -in

Detailed word origin of laskin

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
laskea Finnish (fin) (intransitive) to fall, drop. (intransitive) to lower (e.g. of prices), decrease (e.g. of the amount of sth). (intransitive) to slide (down; by using some vehicle or instrument). (intransitive, e.g. of a road or hill) to slope down, descend, drop off. (intransitive, of a river) to flow to a larger body of water. (intransitive, of the Sun) to set. (transitive) (+ genitive-accusative + [...]
-in Finnish (fin) Suffix variant for the illative singular, see -Vn. Instructive case suffix. (poetic) A variant for the first-person singular possessive suffix -ni. (rare) Forms the genitive plural. Forms superlative adjectives. Forms inanimate instrumental nouns from verbs.
laskin Finnish (fin) Calculator. Pocket calculator.

Words with the same origin as laskin

Descendants of laskea
laskelma laskematon laskento laskeskella lasketella laskettaa laskettelu laskeutua lasko laskuri
Descendants of -in
aiemmin aistin avain elin etsin heitin iso isoisä isoveli isoäiti kasvain kirjoitin näytin otin pidin pieni poltin puhelin suljin tunnistin valitsin varoitin vedin ympäriinsä