Where does “ulkomaanosasto” come from?
ulkomaanosasto (Finnish) comes from Finnish osasto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.
ulkomaanosasto (Finnish): foreign affairs department
Definitions
- foreign affairs department
Ancestry of “ulkomaanosasto”, step by step
ulkomaanosasto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish osasto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | osasto | department; compartment; section |
| 2 | Finnish | -sto | Forms collective nouns from nouns indicating... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | Partitive ending |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | from |
via Finnish ulkomaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ulkomaa | foreign country |
| 2 | Votic | maa | earth; soil; land |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | maa | earth, ground, soil; land, country |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | mëxe | earth, land |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | meǵh₂s | great |