Where does “kahvaus” come from?

kahvaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kahvata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

kahvaus (Finnish): impeding with the stick

Definitions

  1. impeding with the stick

Ancestry of “kahvaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkahvatato impede a player with the stick
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →