Where does “ojitus” come from?

ojitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish ojittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

ojitus (Finnish): ditching, trenching, draining

Definitions

  1. ditching, trenching, draining

Ancestry of “ojitus”, step by step

ojitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ojittaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishojittaaTo ditch, to cut a trench
2Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing

Words derived from “ojitus”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →