Where does “laivanselvitys” come from?
laivanselvitys (Finnish) comes from Finnish selvitys, from Finnish selvittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
laivanselvitys (Finnish): ship brokerage, ship clearance, ship agency
Definitions
- ship brokerage, ship clearance, ship agency
Ancestry of “laivanselvitys”, step by step
laivanselvitys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish selvitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | selvitys | A document covering the description and results... |
| 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- | — |