Where does “naisosasto” come from?

naisosasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish osasto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

naisosasto (Finnish): women's unit of firefighters, etc.; female wing of a political party, etc

Definitions

  1. women's unit of firefighters, etc.; female wing of a political party, etc

Ancestry of “naisosasto”, step by step

naisosasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

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

via Finnish nainen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnainenwoman; lady; first-person singular potential...
2Proto-Finnicnainenwoman; wife
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish -sto →