Where does “akkalauma” come from?

akkalauma (Finnish) comes from Finnish lauma, from Finnish -ttain, from Finnish -ttaen.

akkalauma (Finnish): crowd of women

Definitions

  1. crowd of women

Ancestry of “akkalauma”, step by step

akkalauma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lauma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlaumaherd; crowd, mob, flock; pod
2Finnish-ttainForms distributive adverbs; Forms adverbs...
3Finnish-ttaen—

via Finnish akka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishakkahag, crone; woman; wife; hag, witch; queen, bitch
2Proto-Finnicakkaold woman
Every word from Finnish -ttaen →Every word from Finnish -ttain →Every word from Finnish lauma →
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