Where does “suruliputus” come from?
suruliputus (Finnish) comes from Finnish liputus, from Finnish liputtaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
suruliputus (Finnish): The act of flying flags, usually half-staff, to...
Definitions
- The act of flying flags, usually half-staff, to...
Ancestry of “suruliputus”, step by step
suruliputus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish liputus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liputus | act of flying a flag or flags; flag |
| 2 | Finnish | liputtaa | To fly a flag; To register a ship to state |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish suru
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | suru | sorrow, grief, woe; Swedish Finn |
| 2 | Finnish | surra | To mourn, grieve |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | surdak | to die |
| 4 | Finnish | sure- | — |