Where does “sukuselvitys” come from?
sukuselvitys (Finnish) comes from Finnish selvitys, from Finnish selvittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
sukuselvitys (Finnish): a record detailing the family history of a (deceased) person, based mainly on church records and included among the documents in the inventory of an estate of that person
Definitions
- a record detailing the family history of a (deceased) person, based mainly on church records and included among the documents in the inventory of an estate of that person
Ancestry of “sukuselvitys”, step by step
sukuselvitys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish selvitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | selvitys | A document covering the description and results... |
| 2 | Finnish | selvittää | to make clear, clarify; to examine, investigate,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |