Where does “kasaantuma” come from?
kasaantuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish kasaantua, from Finnish kasata, from Italian cassata, from Italian cassare, from Latin cassō, from Latin cassus, from Latin cadō, from Proto-Italic kadō — to fall.
kasaantuma (Finnish): drift
Ancestry of “kasaantuma”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | kasaantua | Alternative form of kasautua |
| 2 | Finnish | kasata | to pile, heap, stack; to accumulate, amass, pile... |
| 3 | Italian | cassata | cassata; feminine singular of cassato |
| 4 | Italian | cassare | to delete; to cross out; to extinguish; to stamp... |
| 5 | Latin | cassō | — |
| 6 | Latin | cassus | hollow, empty, devoid of something; lacking;... |
| 7 | Latin | cadō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kadō | fall, sink |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱad- | to fall |