Where does “PR-osasto” come from?

PR-osasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish osasto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

PR-osasto (Finnish): PR department

Definitions

  1. PR department

Ancestry of “PR-osasto”, step by step

PR-osasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish osasto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishosastodepartment; compartment; section
2Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish PR

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishPRPR, public relations
2EnglishPRInitialism of public relations; Initialism of...
Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -taEvery word from Finnish -sto
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