Where does “hakusaarto” come from?

hakusaarto (Finnish) comes from Finnish saarto, from Finnish saartaa, from Finnish sääri, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

hakusaarto (Finnish): an action taken by the trade union to boycott a company, discouraging workers from seeking employment at that company

Definitions

  1. an action taken by the trade union to boycott a company, discouraging workers from seeking employment at that company

Ancestry of “hakusaarto”, step by step

hakusaarto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish saarto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaartoblockade
2Finnishsaartaato surround, enclose, encircle
3Finnishsäärishank, shin; cannon; used to refer to legs from...
4Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
5Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
6Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
7Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish haku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhakusearch; applying, application
2FinnishhakeaTo retrieve, get, fetch; To search; To apply
3Proto-Finnichakedakto pick; to fetch; to gather, to collect
4Proto-Germanicsākija-—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish sääri →