Where does “kuivausyksikkö” come from?

kuivausyksikkö (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuivaus, from Finnish kuivata, from Finnish kuiva, from Proto-Finnic kuiva — dry.

kuivausyksikkö (Finnish): drying unit

Definitions

  1. drying unit

Ancestry of “kuivausyksikkö”, step by step

kuivausyksikkö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kuivaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuivausdrying
2Finnishkuivatato dry
3Finnishkuivadry; Indicative present connegative form of...
4Proto-Finnickuivadry

via Finnish yksikkö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishyksikköunit; singular; single
2Finnish-kköFront vowel variant of -kko
3Proto-Finnic-kkoiForms diminutive nouns
Every word from Proto-Finnic kuiva →Every word from Finnish kuiva →Every word from Finnish kuivata →