Where does “kiitovirtaus” come from?

kiitovirtaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish virtaus, from Finnish virrata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

kiitovirtaus (Finnish): supercritical flow

Definitions

  1. supercritical flow

Ancestry of “kiitovirtaus”, step by step

kiitovirtaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish virtaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvirtauscurrent
2Finnishvirratato flow, stream
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish kiito

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiitoflight, scud, dash
2Finnishkiitääto race, speed, fly, dash, scud
3Proto-Finnickiitädäk—
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