Where does “raapaisujälki” come from?

raapaisujälki (Finnish) comes from Finnish raapaisu, from Finnish raapaista, from Finnish raapia, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.

raapaisujälki (Finnish): scratch mark, scrape mark

Definitions

  1. scratch mark, scrape mark

Ancestry of “raapaisujälki”, step by step

raapaisujälki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish raapaisu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishraapaisuA graze; light scratch
2FinnishraapaistaTo scratch, scrape
3FinnishraapiaTo scratch, scrape
4Finnish-iaForms primarily transitive verbs describing...
5Proto-Finnic-idakapplicative suffix
6Proto-Uralic-j-—

via Finnish jälki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjälkitrace; track; aftermath
2Proto-Finnicjälkitrace, mark; track, trail
3Proto-Finno-Ugricjälke—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j- →Every word from Finnish -ia →Every word from Proto-Finnic -idak →