Where does “tierasite” come from?
tierasite (Finnish) comes from Finnish rasite, from Finnish rasittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
tierasite (Finnish): road encumbrance
Definitions
- road encumbrance
Ancestry of “tierasite”, step by step
tierasite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish rasite
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | rasite | burden; servitude; encumbrance; easement |
| 2 | Finnish | rasittaa | to strain, wear out |
| 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- | — |