Where does “maakäräjät” come from?

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

maakäräjät (Finnish): county council administrative subdivision of Sweden

Definitions

  1. county council administrative subdivision of Sweden

Ancestry of “maakäräjät”, step by step

maakäräjät traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish käräjät

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkäräjätcourt; thing, Thing
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 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 -tä →