Where does “avo-ojitus” come from?

avo-ojitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish ojitus, from Finnish ojittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

avo-ojitus (Finnish): open-ditch drainage

Definitions

  1. open-ditch drainage

Ancestry of “avo-ojitus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishojitusditching, trenching, draining
2FinnishojittaaTo ditch, to cut a trench
3Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
4Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta-Every word from Finnish -ttääEvery word from Finnish -ittaa
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