Where does “alaosasto” come from?

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

alaosasto (Finnish): subdepartment, subdivision

Definitions

  1. subdepartment, subdivision

Ancestry of “alaosasto”, step by step

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
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish -sto →