Where does “majavanhausta” come from?
majavanhausta (Finnish) comes from Finnish hausta, from Finnish -usta, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.
majavanhausta (Finnish): castoreum
Ancestry of “majavanhausta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | hausta | castor sac; elative singular of haku |
| 2 | Finnish | -usta | Forms nouns, mostly used for things located in a... |
| 3 | Finnish | -tä | Front vowel variant of -ta |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | — |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | |