Where does “erikoisosasto” come from?
erikoisosasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish osasto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.
erikoisosasto (Finnish): special unit
Ancestry of “erikoisosasto”, step by step
erikoisosasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish osasto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | osasto | department; compartment; section |
| 2 | Finnish | -sto | Forms collective nouns from nouns indicating... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |
via Finnish erikoinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | erikoinen | Special, exceptional, out of the ordinary;... |
| 2 | Finnish | eri | different, other, another; different, separate;... |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *erei | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | er- | eagle, bird; loose, light, rare, sparse; to fail,... |