Where does “keruu” come from?

keruu (Finnish) comes from Finnish kerätä, from Finnish -ata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

keruu (Finnish): collecting, collection

Definitions

  1. collecting, collection

Ancestry of “keruu”, step by step

keruu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kerätä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkerätäto collect, gather, accumulate; to pick
2Finnish-ataDerives verbs
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish uu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishuuThe name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest
2LatinU
3LatinVve
4Etruscan?u

Words derived from “keruu

Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -taEvery word from Finnish -ata