Where does “laakaus” come from?

laakaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish laa’ata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

laakaus (Finnish): spreading (out), laying (out)

Definitions

  1. spreading (out), laying (out)

Ancestry of “laakaus”, step by step

laakaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish laa’ata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlaa’atato spread out
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 →