Where does “piirityssota” come from?
piirityssota (Finnish) comes from Finnish piiritys, from Finnish piirittää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
piirityssota (Finnish): siege warfare
Ancestry of “piirityssota”, step by step
piirityssota 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 sota
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sota | war; warfare; military, war- |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | sota | war, conflict |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | śoďa | war |