Where does “saksaus” come from?

saksaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish saksata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

saksaus (Finnish): scissoring moving something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs

Definitions

  1. scissoring moving something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs

Ancestry of “saksaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaksatato scissor to move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →