Where does “surffilauta” come from?
surffilauta (Finnish) comes from Finnish surffata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.
surffilauta (Finnish): surfboard
Ancestry of “surffilauta”, step by step
surffilauta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish surffata
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | surffata | To surf |
| 2 | Finnish | -ätä | Front vowel variant of -ata |
| 3 | Finnish | -tä | Front vowel variant of -ta |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |
via Finnish lauta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lauta | A board; An element in many compound words, where... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | lauta | board, plank; table |
| 3 | Proto-Baltic | *plauˀtá | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | plew- | to fly, flow, run |