Where does “koukkaus” come from?

koukkaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish koukata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

koukkaus (Finnish): catching, stopping by

Definitions

  1. catching, stopping by

Ancestry of “koukkaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkoukatato catch by reaching out with one's hands or a tool in a way that "hooks" something
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →