Where does “haaraosasto” come from?

haaraosasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish osasto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

haaraosasto (Finnish): branch

Definitions

  1. branch

Ancestry of “haaraosasto”, step by step

haaraosasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish osasto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishosastodepartment; compartment; section
2Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish haara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaarabranch; fork, bifurcation; offshoot
2Proto-Finnichaarabranch
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish -sto →