Where does “pelastuspäällikkö” come from?
pelastuspäällikkö (Finnish) comes from Finnish pelastus, from Finnish pelastaa, from Finnish -taa, from Proto-Finnic -tadak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
pelastuspäällikkö (Finnish): chief executive of an emergency services department
Definitions
- chief executive of an emergency services department
Ancestry of “pelastuspäällikkö”, step by step
pelastuspäällikkö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pelastus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pelastus | rescue act of rescuing |
| 2 | Finnish | pelastaa | to save, rescue |
| 3 | Finnish | -taa | Forms causative verbs; Forms verbs from nouns and... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |
via Finnish päällikkö
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | päällikkö | chief; head; leader |
| 2 | Finnish | -ikko | Forms nouns for groups of a particular number,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ikko | Forms nouns indicating a group of things |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -i- | Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive) |