Where does “laikkumätästys” come from?

laikkumätästys (Finnish) comes from Finnish mätästys, from Finnish mätästää, from Finnish mätäs, from Proto-Finnic mät'äs, from Proto-Uralic mäkte — tussock.

laikkumätästys (Finnish): spot mounding

Definitions

  1. spot mounding

Ancestry of “laikkumätästys”, step by step

laikkumätästys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mätästys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmätästysmounding digging up tussocks and placing them upside down in holes
2Finnishmätästääto mound, perform mounding (in/on) dig up tussocks and place them upside down in holes in the ground
3FinnishmätäsA tussock; Second-person singular imperative...
4Proto-Finnicmät'ästussock
5Proto-Uralicmäktetussock

via Finnish laikku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlaikkuspot; patch; fleck
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Uralic mäkte →Every word from Proto-Finnic mät'äs →Every word from Finnish mätäs →