Where does “lumpunkeräys” come from?

lumpunkeräys (Finnish) comes from Finnish keräys, from Finnish kerätä, from Finnish -ata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

lumpunkeräys (Finnish): rag collection activity or business of collecting rags for recycling industry

Definitions

  1. rag collection activity or business of collecting rags for recycling industry

Ancestry of “lumpunkeräys”, step by step

lumpunkeräys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish keräys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkeräysan act of collecting; fundraising
2Finnishkerätäto collect, gather, accumulate; to pick
3Finnish-ataDerives verbs
4Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish lumppu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlumppurags; a sexually promiscuous woman, a slut
2Swedishlumprag
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä
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