Where does “vanhusneuvosto” come from?

vanhusneuvosto (Finnish) comes from Finnish neuvosto, from Finnish -sto, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

vanhusneuvosto (Finnish): council for the elderly

Definitions

  1. council for the elderly

Ancestry of “vanhusneuvosto”, step by step

vanhusneuvosto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish neuvosto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishneuvostocouncil; soviet
2Finnish-stoForms collective nouns from nouns indicating...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish vanhus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvanhusold person
2Finnishvanhaold
3Proto-Finnicvanhaold
4Proto-Finno-Permicwanša—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish -sto →