Where does “makuuvaunuosasto” come from?

makuuvaunuosasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish makuuvaunu, from Finnish makuu, from Finnish -uu, from Finnish -au, from Finnish -ao, from Proto-Finnic -ado, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.

makuuvaunuosasto (Finnish): sleeper compartment

Definitions

  1. sleeper compartment

Ancestry of “makuuvaunuosasto”, step by step

makuuvaunuosasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish makuuvaunu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmakuuvaunusleeping car, sleeper
2Finnishmakuulying; sleeping
3Finnish-uuForms nouns from verbs
4Finnish-au—
5Finnish-ao—
6Proto-Finnic-ado—
7Proto-Finnic-oForms action/result nouns from verbs
8Proto-Uralic-w—

via Finnish osasto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishosastodepartment; compartment; section
2Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -w →Every word from Proto-Finnic -o →Every word from Finnish -uu →