Where does “pitäjänkokous” come from?

pitäjänkokous (Finnish) comes from Finnish kokous, from Finnish koota, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

pitäjänkokous (Finnish): an assembly of the council of a rural municipality, historically the most powerful form of local government

Definitions

  1. an assembly of the council of a rural municipality, historically the most powerful form of local government

Ancestry of “pitäjänkokous”, step by step

pitäjänkokous traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kokous

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkokousmeeting, conference, assembly, convent, gathering
2Finnishkootato collect together, gather; to assemble,...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish pitäjä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpitäjärural municipality; holder; keeper
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish koota →