Where does “rautatiehallitus” come from?
rautatiehallitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish rautatie, from Romanian răutate, from Romanian rău, from Romanian făcător, from Romanian face, from Romanian -tor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
rautatiehallitus (Finnish): the public agency running the (Finnish) state railways, spun off into its own enterprise in 1990 (subsequently became the modern VR Group in 1995)
Definitions
- the public agency running the (Finnish) state railways, spun off into its own enterprise in 1990 (subsequently became the modern VR Group in 1995)
Ancestry of “rautatiehallitus”, step by step
rautatiehallitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish rautatie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | rautatie | railway, railroad |
| 2 | Romanian | răutate | badness, wickedness, maliciousness, malignity |
| 3 | Romanian | rău | bad; wrong; sick |
| 4 | Romanian | făcător | maker, creator; making, doing |
| 5 | Romanian | face | do, make; to be made, to be done |
| 6 | Romanian | -tor | -er; -ing |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |