Where does “maankuivatus” come from?
maankuivatus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuivatus, from Finnish kuivattaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
maankuivatus (Finnish): land drainage, land drying
Definitions
- land drainage, land drying
Ancestry of “maankuivatus”, step by step
maankuivatus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kuivatus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuivatus | drying the action of drying or making dry |
| 2 | Finnish | kuivattaa | to dry |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | 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 |