Where does “skeittailu” come from?
skeittailu (Finnish) comes from Finnish skeittailla, from Finnish skeitata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.
skeittailu (Finnish): skateboarding
Ancestry of “skeittailu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | skeittailla | to skateboard |
| 2 | Finnish | skeitata | to skateboard, skate |
| 3 | Finnish | -ätä | Front vowel variant of -ata |
| 4 | Finnish | -tä | Front vowel variant of -ta |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | — |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | |