Where does “arvauskilpailu” come from?

arvauskilpailu (Finnish) comes from Finnish arvaus, from Finnish arvata, from Finnish ennalta, from Finnish -lta, from Proto-Finnic -lta — Ablative case ending.

arvauskilpailu (Finnish): guessing game form of raffle or lottery

Definitions

  1. guessing game form of raffle or lottery

Ancestry of “arvauskilpailu”, step by step

arvauskilpailu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish arvaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnisharvausguess
2Finnisharvatato guess
3Finnishennaltabeforehand
4Finnish-ltaforms the ablative case
5Proto-Finnic-ltaAblative case ending

via Finnish kilpailu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkilpailucontest, competition, race; competition; rivalry
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finnic -lta →
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