Where does “palkkatuki” come from?

palkkatuki (Finnish) comes from Finnish tuki, from Proto-Finnic tuki — support.

palkkatuki (Finnish): pay subsidy, wage subsidy aid or allowance paid by social services to an employer who hires an unemployed person, and which is equal to some percentage of their pay, wage or salary

Definitions

  1. pay subsidy, wage subsidy aid or allowance paid by social services to an employer who hires an unemployed person, and which is equal to some percentage of their pay, wage or salary

Ancestry of “palkkatuki”, step by step

palkkatuki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tuki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtukisupport; back, backing; strut, prop, crutch
2Proto-Finnictukisupport

via Finnish palkka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalkkapay, salary, wage; compensation, remuneration
2Proto-Finnicpalkkapay, salary, reward
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