Where does “koekuopitus” come from?
koekuopitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuopitus, from Finnish kuopittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
koekuopitus (Finnish): trial trenching
Definitions
- trial trenching
Ancestry of “koekuopitus”, step by step
koekuopitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kuopitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuopitus | trenching |
| 2 | Finnish | kuopittaa | to dig holes or trenches (in) |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |