Where does “myötäpurje” come from?

myötäpurje (Finnish) comes from Finnish myötä-, from Finnish myötä, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

myötäpurje (Finnish): studdingsail

Definitions

  1. studdingsail

Ancestry of “myötäpurje”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmyötä-Used to express favourability, agreeability etc
2Finnishmyötäfor; along
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish myötä- →