Where does “puskuliitos” come from?
puskuliitos (Finnish) comes from Finnish liitos, from Finnish liittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
puskuliitos (Finnish): butt joint
Ancestry of “puskuliitos”, step by step
puskuliitos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish liitos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liitos | joint; union; bond |
| 2 | Finnish | liittää | to join, connect, attach, fasten; to attach,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish pusku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pusku | pushing, ramming |
| 2 | Finnish | puskea | to ram, to push; to gore; to header |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | puskedak | to ram; to gore |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | puske- | — |