Where does “kohdealue” come from?

kohdealue (Finnish) comes from Finnish kohde, from Finnish kohdata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

kohdealue (Finnish): target area, target zone, target domain

Definitions

  1. target area, target zone, target domain

Ancestry of “kohdealue”, step by step

kohdealue traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kohde

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkohdetarget; bogey; attraction, sight
2Finnishkohdatato meet with, encounter; to undergo, experience,...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish alue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishaluearea; region; oblast
2Proto-Austronesianqaluʀto flow
3Proto-Austronesian-luʀ—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish kohdata →