Where does “katumellakka” come from?
katumellakka (Finnish) comes from Finnish mellakka, from Finnish -kkä, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
katumellakka (Finnish): street riot, street protest
Definitions
- street riot, street protest
Ancestry of “katumellakka”, step by step
katumellakka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish mellakka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mellakka | riot, tumult |
| 2 | Finnish | -kkä | Front vowel variant of -kka |
| 3 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 4 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |
via Finnish katu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | katu | street |
| 2 | Old Swedish | gata | street, road |
| 3 | Old Norse | gáta | riddle |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | gatwǭ | street, passage |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰodweh₂ | — |