Where does “lihaosasto” come from?

lihaosasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish osasto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

lihaosasto (Finnish): meat section, meat department

Definitions

  1. meat section, meat department

Ancestry of “lihaosasto”, step by step

lihaosasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish osasto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishosastodepartment; compartment; section
2Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish liha

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlihameat; flesh
2Proto-Finniclihameat
3Proto-Finniclišaaddition, increase
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish -sto →