Where does “nippulauttaus” come from?

nippulauttaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish lauttaus, from Finnish lautata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

nippulauttaus (Finnish): rafting bundles of timber

Definitions

  1. rafting bundles of timber

Ancestry of “nippulauttaus”, step by step

nippulauttaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lauttaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlauttausrafting conveying on a raft
2Finnishlautatato raft to convey on a raft
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish nippu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnippubundle, bunch
2Swedishknippabunch
3Swedishknippebunch, bundle
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →