Where does “toisiotutka” come from?

toisiotutka (Finnish) comes from Finnish tutka, from Finnish tutkia, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.

toisiotutka (Finnish): secondary surveillance radar

Definitions

  1. secondary surveillance radar

Ancestry of “toisiotutka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtutkaradar
2Finnishtutkiato examine, investigate; to research; Partitive...
3Finnish-iaForms primarily transitive verbs describing...
4Proto-Finnic-idakapplicative suffix
5Proto-Uralic-j-
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j-Every word from Finnish -iaEvery word from Finnish tutkia