Where does “lujitemaa” come from?

lujitemaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish lujite, from Finnish lujittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

lujitemaa (Finnish): reinforced soil, reinforced earth

Definitions

  1. reinforced soil, reinforced earth

Ancestry of “lujitemaa”, step by step

lujitemaa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lujite

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlujitereinforcement
2FinnishlujittaaTo strengthen
3Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
4Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-

via Finnish mää

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmääbaa; I
2Finnish-inen-like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from...
3Finnish-uusForms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality
4Proto-Finnic-uc-ness, -hood
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta-Every word from Finnish -ttääEvery word from Finnish -ittaa