Where does “ruostekerrostuma” come from?
ruostekerrostuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish kerrostuma, from Finnish kerrostua, from Finnish kerrostaa, from Finnish kerros, from Finnish kerrata, from Finnish kerta, from Proto-Finnic kerta, from Proto-Indo-European kert- — to travel, tour.
ruostekerrostuma (Finnish): rust layer, rust deposit
Definitions
- rust layer, rust deposit
Ancestry of “ruostekerrostuma”, step by step
ruostekerrostuma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kerrostuma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kerrostuma | layer, stratum |
| 2 | Finnish | kerrostua | To be stratified |
| 3 | Finnish | kerrostaa | to overlay, stratify; to sandwich |
| 4 | Finnish | kerros | floor, storey; layer; Second-person singular... |
| 5 | Finnish | kerrata | To repeat or reread |
| 6 | Finnish | kerta | time, occasion; time; times; also once, when the... |
| 7 | Proto-Finnic | kerta | time |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kert- | times; to weave, twist together; time |
| 9 | Proto-Turkic | *keŕ- | to travel, tour |