Where does “kouraus” come from?

kouraus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kourata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

kouraus (Finnish): fistful, handful of grain, flax, etc

Definitions

  1. fistful, handful of grain, flax, etc

Ancestry of “kouraus”, step by step

kouraus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kourata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkouratato grab into one's palm
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -tä →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ta →