Where does “piiritysjoukot” come from?
piiritysjoukot (Finnish) comes from Finnish piiritys, from Finnish piirittää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
piiritysjoukot (Finnish): besieging forces or troops
Definitions
- besieging forces or troops
Ancestry of “piiritysjoukot”, step by step
piiritysjoukot traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish piiritys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | piiritys | siege |
| 2 | Finnish | piirittää | to circle, surround; to siege, lay siege to,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish joukko
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | joukko | group, cluster, band; crowd of people number of things or persons, especially a rather large and unorganized one |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | joukko | group |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | jaukiją | draught animal; team of oxen |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | yewg- | to join, to yoke, to tie together |