Where does “kohdevalo” come from?

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

kohdevalo (Finnish): spotlight

Definitions

  1. spotlight

Ancestry of “kohdevalo”, step by step

kohdevalo 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 valo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvalolight
2Proto-Finnicvalolight visible radiation
3Proto-Finno-Ugricwaĺɜ—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish kohdata →