Where does “roskienkeräys” come from?

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

roskienkeräys (Finnish): trash collection

Definitions

  1. trash collection

Ancestry of “roskienkeräys”, step by step

roskienkeräys 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 roska

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishroskalitter, trash, rubbish
2Swedishroskfilth, garbage
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish -ata →