Where does “edussana” come from?

edussana (Finnish) comes from Finnish edus-, from Finnish etu, from Finnish esi-, from Proto-Finnic eci, from Albanian *etës, from Proto-Albanian *aitatja, from Proto-Indo-European h₁éyti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ey- — to go.

edussana (Finnish): head, nucleus word of a phrase that determines the syntactic category of that phrase

Definitions

  1. head, nucleus word of a phrase that determines the syntactic category of that phrase

Ancestry of “edussana”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishedus-—
2Finnishetuadvantage; benefit, interest
3Finnishesi-pre-, fore-
4Proto-Finnicecibefore; in front
5Albanian*etës—
6Proto-Albanian*aitatja—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁éytito go, to be going
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁ey-to go
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁ey- →