Where does “kauppakeskittymä” come from?
kauppakeskittymä (Finnish) comes from Finnish keskittymä, from Finnish keskittyä, from Finnish keskittää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kauppakeskittymä (Finnish): shopping center an area with a high concentration of shops or stores
Definitions
- shopping center an area with a high concentration of shops or stores
Ancestry of “kauppakeskittymä”, step by step
kauppakeskittymä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish keskittymä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | keskittymä | concentration state or instance of being concentrated, as in centralized |
| 2 | Finnish | keskittyä | to concentrate on, focus on |
| 3 | Finnish | keskittää | to focus, concentrate; to centralize; to center,... |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |