Where does “laivanselvittäjä” come from?
laivanselvittäjä (Finnish) comes from Finnish selvittäjä, from Finnish selvittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
laivanselvittäjä (Finnish): shipowner's agent, ship agent, shipping agent, freight broker
Definitions
- shipowner's agent, ship agent, shipping agent, freight broker
Ancestry of “laivanselvittäjä”, step by step
laivanselvittäjä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish selvittäjä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | selvittäjä | investigator, examiner |
| 2 | Finnish | selvittää | to make clear, clarify; to examine, investigate,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |