Where does “sorvaus” come from?

sorvaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish sorvata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

sorvaus (Finnish): lathing working on with a lathe

Definitions

  1. lathing working on with a lathe

Ancestry of “sorvaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsorvatato lathe; to work a job or task
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 →