Where does “polttohautaus” come from?
polttohautaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish poltto, from Finnish polttaa, from Proto-Finnic polttadak, from Proto-Finnic paladak, from Proto-Uralic pala- — to devour, eat.
polttohautaus (Finnish): cremation
Definitions
- cremation
Ancestry of “polttohautaus”, step by step
polttohautaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish poltto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | poltto | burn, burning; burn; incineration |
| 2 | Finnish | polttaa | to burn; to burn, sunburn; to burn, waste |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | polttadak | to burn |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | paladak | to burn, to be burning |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | pala- | to devour, eat |
via Finnish hautaus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hautaus | burial, entombment |
| 2 | Finnish | haudata | to bury, inter, entomb; to bury, abandon |
| 3 | Finnish | hauta | grave, tomb; trench; kiln, in the compound term... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | sauþaz | boiling; seething; wellspring; fountain; source;... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂sewt- | to roil; to move about, roil, seethe |