Where does “tasauspätkä” come from?

tasauspätkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish tasaus, from Finnish tasata, from Finnish tasa, from Proto-Finnic tasa, from Proto-Uralic taśa — even.

tasauspätkä (Finnish): trim-end, offcut mainly of wood

Definitions

  1. trim-end, offcut mainly of wood

Ancestry of “tasauspätkä”, step by step

tasauspätkä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tasaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtasausequalisation; leveling; justified
2Finnishtasatato divide into equal parts; to level; to equalize
3Finnishtasaof equal height; of the same level
4Proto-Finnictasaeven
5Proto-Uralictaśaeven

via Finnish pätkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpätkäshorty, shortie; clip; snippet
Every word from Proto-Uralic taśa →Every word from Proto-Finnic tasa →Every word from Finnish tasa →