Where does “osto-osasto” come from?
osto-osasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish osasto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.
osto-osasto (Finnish): purchasing department, procurement department
Definitions
- purchasing department, procurement department
Ancestry of “osto-osasto”, step by step
osto-osasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish osasto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | osasto | department; compartment; section |
| 2 | Finnish | -sto | Forms collective nouns from nouns indicating... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |
via Finnish osto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | osto | purchase |
| 2 | Finnish | ostaa | To buy, purchase |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | ostadak | to buy |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |