Where does “istuma-alusta” come from?

istuma-alusta (Finnish) comes from Finnish alusta, from Finnish -usta, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

istuma-alusta (Finnish): sit pad

Definitions

  1. sit pad

Ancestry of “istuma-alusta”, step by step

istuma-alusta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish alusta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishalustaplatform; Partitive singular form of alus;...
2Finnish-ustaForms nouns, mostly used for things located in a...
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish istua

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishistuato sit; to be a member in a board or similar; to...
2Proto-Finnicistudaksit
Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -täEvery word from Finnish -usta