Where does “palo-osastointi” come from?

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

palo-osastointi (Finnish): fire compartmentation

Definitions

  1. fire compartmentation

Ancestry of “palo-osastointi”, step by step

palo-osastointi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish osastointi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishosastointicompartmentation subdivision of a space
2Finnishosastoidato subdivide into different compartments, compartmentalize
3Finnishosastodepartment; compartment; section
4Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
5Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
6Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
7Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish Palo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishPaloname of many small places in Finland
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*palo
Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -taEvery word from Finnish -sto
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