Where does “sotilasdiktaattori” come from?

sotilasdiktaattori (Finnish) comes from Finnish sotilas, from Finnish -las, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

sotilasdiktaattori (Finnish): military dictator

Definitions

  1. military dictator

Ancestry of “sotilasdiktaattori”, step by step

sotilasdiktaattori traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sotilas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotilassoldier; pawn; jack, knave
2Finnish-lasForms nouns used to describe people; Forms...
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s

via Finnish diktaattori

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishdiktaattoridictator, dictatrix totalitarian leader of a dictatorship
2Latindictātoran elected chief magistrate
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -sEvery word from Finnish -läEvery word from Finnish -las