Where does “ostotottumus” come from?
ostotottumus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tottumus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.
ostotottumus (Finnish): buying habit
Ancestry of “ostotottumus”, step by step
ostotottumus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tottumus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tottumus | habit, custom, routine |
| 2 | Finnish | -mus | Forms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |
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... |