Where does “rikosseuraamus” come from?

rikosseuraamus (Finnish) comes from Finnish seuraamus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

rikosseuraamus (Finnish): criminal sanction

Definitions

  1. criminal sanction

Ancestry of “rikosseuraamus”, step by step

rikosseuraamus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish seuraamus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishseuraamussanction
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma

via Finnish rikos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrikoscrime, offence/offense, criminality; ~" a...
2Finnishrikkoato break; to violate, breach; to offend, to...
3Proto-Finnicrikkodakto break; to ruin, to mar, to damage

Words derived from “rikosseuraamus

Every word from Proto-Uralic -maEvery word from Proto-Finnic -maEvery word from Finnish -mus
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