Where does “ojitusmätästys” come from?
ojitusmätästys (Finnish) comes from Finnish ojitus, from Finnish ojittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
ojitusmätästys (Finnish): trench mounding
Definitions
- trench mounding
Ancestry of “ojitusmätästys”, step by step
ojitusmätästys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ojitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ojitus | ditching, trenching, draining |
| 2 | Finnish | ojittaa | To ditch, to cut a trench |
| 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 mätästys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mätästys | mounding digging up tussocks and placing them upside down in holes |
| 2 | Finnish | mätästää | to mound, perform mounding (in/on) dig up tussocks and place them upside down in holes in the ground |
| 3 | Finnish | mätäs | A tussock; Second-person singular imperative... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | mät'äs | tussock |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | mäkte | tussock |