Where does “piiritystaito” come from?
piiritystaito (Finnish) comes from Finnish Taito, from Finnish taito, from Finnish -o, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.
piiritystaito (Finnish): siegecraft, poliorcetics
Ancestry of “piiritystaito”, step by step
piiritystaito traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Taito
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Taito | skill capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned |
| 2 | Finnish | taito | skill; art |
| 3 | Finnish | -o | Forms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |
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- | — |