Where does “vallankeskitys” come from?
vallankeskitys (Finnish) comes from Finnish keskitys, from Finnish keskittää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
vallankeskitys (Finnish): centralization of power
Ancestry of “vallankeskitys”, step by step
vallankeskitys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish keskitys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | keskitys | concentration; barrage; center |
| 2 | Finnish | keskittää | to focus, concentrate; to centralize; to center,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish valta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | valta | power, authority, rule; main, principal; country,... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | valta | might, power, authority; white |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | waldą | might, power, authority |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | waldʰ- | to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess |