Where does “miehitysjoukko” come from?

miehitysjoukko (Finnish) comes from Finnish miehitys, from Finnish miehittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

miehitysjoukko (Finnish): occupying force, invasion force

Definitions

  1. occupying force, invasion force

Ancestry of “miehitysjoukko”, step by step

miehitysjoukko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish miehitys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmiehitysmanning; occupation
2Finnishmiehittääto man; to staff; to occupy, take possession of
3Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
4Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-

via Finnish joukko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjoukkogroup, cluster, band; crowd of people number of things or persons, especially a rather large and unorganized one
2Proto-Finnicjoukkogroup
3Proto-Germanicjaukijądraught animal; team of oxen
4Proto-Indo-Europeanyewg-to join, to yoke, to tie together
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta-Every word from Finnish -ttääEvery word from Finnish -ittaa