Where does “romunkeräys” come from?

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

romunkeräys (Finnish): scrap collection, junk removal

Definitions

  1. scrap collection, junk removal

Ancestry of “romunkeräys”, step by step

romunkeräys 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 romu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishromuscrap, junk, especially one that consists of...
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä