Where does “karstaus” come from?

karstaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish karstata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

karstaus (Finnish): carding

Definitions

  1. carding

Ancestry of “karstaus”, step by step

karstaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish karstata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkarstatato card
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing

Words derived from “karstaus

Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -täEvery word from Finnish karstata