Where does “maavuoto” come from?
maavuoto (Finnish) comes from Finnish vuoto, from Finnish vuotaa, from Proto-Finnic vootadak, from Proto-Finnic voo, from Proto-Uralic uwa- — to flow.
maavuoto (Finnish): ground leakage, earth leakage
Definitions
- ground leakage, earth leakage
Ancestry of “maavuoto”, step by step
maavuoto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vuoto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vuoto | leak |
| 2 | Finnish | vuotaa | To leak, run, trickle, flow; to ooze, seep; to... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vootadak | to flow; to trickle, to seep; to leak |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | voo | flow |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | uwa- | to flow |
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 |