Where does “rahankeräys” come from?

rahankeräys (Finnish) comes from Finnish keräys, from Finnish kerätä, from Finnish -ata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

rahankeräys (Finnish): fundraising, collection of money

Definitions

  1. fundraising, collection of money

Ancestry of “rahankeräys”, step by step

rahankeräys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish keräys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkeräysan act of collecting; fundraising
2Finnishkerätäto collect, gather, accumulate; to pick
3Finnish-ataDerives verbs
4Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish raha

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrahamoney; money, cash; money, wealth
2Proto-Finnicrahasquirrel pelt; money
3Proto-Germanicskrahōdry animal skin
4Proto-Indo-European(s)ker-to cut off; to turn, bend
5Proto-Indo-Europeansek-to cut, cut off, sever
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →