Where does “opettajakokelas” come from?

opettajakokelas (Finnish) comes from Finnish kokelas, from Finnish -las, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

opettajakokelas (Finnish): student teacher

Definitions

  1. student teacher

Ancestry of “opettajakokelas”, step by step

opettajakokelas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kokelas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkokelascandidate; cadet; prospect
2Finnish-lasForms nouns used to describe people; Forms...
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish opettaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishopettajateacher
2Finnishopettaato teach, instruct
3Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -las →