Where does “piiritystikkaat” come from?

piiritystikkaat (Finnish) comes from Finnish piiritys, from Finnish piirittää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

piiritystikkaat (Finnish): scaling ladder ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification

Definitions

  1. scaling ladder ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification

Ancestry of “piiritystikkaat”, step by step

piiritystikkaat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish piiritys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpiirityssiege
2Finnishpiirittääto circle, surround; to siege, lay siege to,...
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish tikkaat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtikkaatladder; Second-person singular indicative present...
2Finnishtikasladder; rung of a ladder
3Old Swedishstighi—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →