Where does “suuntima-asema” come from?

suuntima-asema (Finnish) comes from Finnish suuntima, from Finnish suuntia, from Finnish ia, from Finnish ja, from Proto-Finnic ja, from Proto-Germanic jahw, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

suuntima-asema (Finnish): a station used to get the bearing for anti-air defense

Definitions

  1. a station used to get the bearing for anti-air defense

Ancestry of “suuntima-asema”, step by step

suuntima-asema traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish suuntima

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsuuntimabearing
2Finnishsuuntiato take the bearings; Partitive plural form of...
3FinnishiaObsolete spelling of ja
4Finnishjaand; AND
5Proto-Finnicjaand
6Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
7Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
8Proto-Germanic-hwe
9Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

via Finnish asema

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasemastate, position, situation; status; station
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷeEvery word from Proto-Germanic -hwEvery word from Proto-Germanic jahw