Where does “osasto” come from?

osasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

osasto (Finnish): department; compartment; section

Definitions

  1. department; compartment; section

Ancestry of “osasto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom

Words derived from “osasto

Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -taEvery word from Finnish -sto