Where does “vajaamiehitys” come from?
vajaamiehitys (Finnish) comes from Finnish miehitys, from Finnish miehittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
vajaamiehitys (Finnish): understaffing, undermanning
Definitions
- understaffing, undermanning
Ancestry of “vajaamiehitys”, step by step
vajaamiehitys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish miehitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | miehitys | manning; occupation |
| 2 | Finnish | miehittää | to man; to staff; to occupy, take possession of |
| 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- | — |