Where does “asutusalue” come from?

asutusalue (Finnish) comes from Finnish asutus, from Finnish asuttaa, from Finnish asua, from Proto-Finnic asudak, from Proto-Uralic ëśew-, from Proto-Uralic ëśe- — to exist, be located.

asutusalue (Finnish): settlement area

Definitions

  1. settlement area

Ancestry of “asutusalue”, step by step

asutusalue traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish asutus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasutussettlement
2Finnishasuttaato inhabit, people, populate, settle,...
3Finnishasuato live, reside, dwell; Partitive singular form...
4Proto-Finnicasudakto live (somewhere), dwell, reside
5Proto-Uralicëśew-to camp, remain
6Proto-Uralicëśe-to exist, be located

via Finnish alue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaluearea; region; oblast
2Proto-Austronesianqaluʀto flow
3Proto-Austronesian-luʀ
Every word from Proto-Uralic ëśe-Every word from Proto-Uralic ëśew-Every word from Proto-Finnic asudak