Where does “loikkaus” come from?

loikkaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish loikata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

loikkaus (Finnish): leaping, leap

Definitions

  1. leaping, leap

Ancestry of “loikkaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishloikataTo leap; To defect
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish loikata →