Where does “osittelulaki” come from?
osittelulaki (Finnish) comes from Finnish osittelu, from Finnish ositella, from Finnish osittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
osittelulaki (Finnish): distributive law
Definitions
- distributive law
Ancestry of “osittelulaki”, step by step
osittelulaki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish osittelu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | osittelu | partitioning |
| 2 | Finnish | ositella | to partition |
| 3 | Finnish | osittaa | to partition |
| 4 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 5 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |