Where does “joukkotappelu” come from?
joukkotappelu (Finnish) comes from Finnish tappelu, from Finnish tapella, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
joukkotappelu (Finnish): brawl, melee, large fight
Definitions
- brawl, melee, large fight
Ancestry of “joukkotappelu”, step by step
joukkotappelu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tappelu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tappelu | fight, altercation, wrangle |
| 2 | Finnish | tapella | to fight, brawl; to quarrel, squabble |
| 3 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |
via Finnish joukko
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | joukko | group, cluster, band; crowd of people number of things or persons, especially a rather large and unorganized one |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | joukko | group |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | jaukiją | draught animal; team of oxen |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | yewg- | to join, to yoke, to tie together |