Where does “paluuvirtaus” come from?

paluuvirtaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish virtaus, from Finnish virrata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

paluuvirtaus (Finnish): return flow; undertow; rip current

Definitions

  1. return flow; undertow; rip current

Ancestry of “paluuvirtaus”, step by step

paluuvirtaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish virtaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvirtauscurrent
2Finnishvirratato flow, stream
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish paluu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpaluureturn; comeback
2FinnishuuThe name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest
3LatinU—
4LatinVve
5Etruscan?u
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish virrata →