Where does “joukkueurheilu” come from?
joukkueurheilu (Finnish) comes from Finnish urheilu, from Finnish urheilla, from Finnish -illa, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.
joukkueurheilu (Finnish): team sport
Definitions
- team sport
Ancestry of “joukkueurheilu”, step by step
joukkueurheilu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish urheilu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | urheilu | sports, athletics; sport; sporting, sports |
| 2 | Finnish | urheilla | to participate in sport or sports; to exercise;... |
| 3 | Finnish | -illa | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |
via Finnish joukkue
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | joukkue | A team; A platoon |
| 2 | Finnish | joukko | group, cluster, band; crowd of people number of things or persons, especially a rather large and unorganized one |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | joukko | group |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jaukiją | draught animal; team of oxen |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | yewg- | to join, to yoke, to tie together |