Where does “maahengitys” come from?

maahengitys (Finnish) comes from Finnish hengitys, from Finnish hengittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

maahengitys (Finnish): soil respiration

Definitions

soil respiration

Ancestry of “maahengitys”, step by step

maahengitys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hengitys

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Finnish	hengitys	breath, breathing
2	Finnish	hengittää	to breathe
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-	—

via Finnish mää

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Finnish	mää	baa; I
2	Finnish	-inen	-like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from...
3	Finnish	-uus	Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality
4	Proto-Finnic	-uc	-ness, -hood

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →