Where does “miekkari” come from?
miekkari (Finnish) comes from Finnish mielenosoitus, from Finnish osoitus, from Finnish osoittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
miekkari (Finnish): demonstration
Ancestry of “miekkari”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | mielenosoitus | demonstration, protest |
| 2 | Finnish | osoitus | indication, demonstration, manifestation |
| 3 | Finnish | osoittaa | to show; to indicate; to point |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |