Where does “ensiojitus” come from?
ensiojitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish ojitus, from Finnish ojittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
ensiojitus (Finnish): installation of drainage systems somewhere that has never had them; first-time drainage installation
Definitions
- installation of drainage systems somewhere that has never had them; first-time drainage installation
Ancestry of “ensiojitus”, step by step
ensiojitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ojitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ojitus | ditching, trenching, draining |
| 2 | Finnish | ojittaa | To ditch, to cut a trench |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |