Where does “maastamuutto” come from?
maastamuutto (Finnish) comes from Finnish mää, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
maastamuutto (Finnish): emigration
Ancestry of “maastamuutto”, step by step
maastamuutto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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 |
via Finnish muutto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muutto | move, relocation; migration |
| 2 | Finnish | muuttaa | to modify, change, alter; to transform,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ellä | Front vowel variant of -ella |