Where does “ohituskaista” come from?
ohituskaista (Finnish) comes from Finnish ohitus, from Finnish ohittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
ohituskaista (Finnish): overtaking lane
Definitions
- overtaking lane
Ancestry of “ohituskaista”, step by step
ohituskaista traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ohitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ohitus | bypass; overtaking |
| 2 | Finnish | ohittaa | to pass, overtake; to pass, go by, go past; to... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish kaista
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kaista | lane; band; shred, strip |
| 2 | Proto-Norse | gaistō(n)- | — |