Where does “palomiehistö” come from?

palomiehistö (Finnish) comes from Finnish miehistö, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

palomiehistö (Finnish): fire crew, firefighters as opposed to fire officers

Definitions

  1. fire crew, firefighters as opposed to fire officers

Ancestry of “palomiehistö”, step by step

palomiehistö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish miehistö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmiehistöcrew; rank and file. In the Finnish army the term...
2Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish Palo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishPaloname of many small places in Finland
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*palo—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish -sto →