Where does “veroasteikko” come from?

veroasteikko (Finnish) comes from Finnish asteikko, from Finnish -ikko, from Proto-Finnic -ikko, from Proto-Finnic -i- — Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive).

veroasteikko (Finnish): tax scale US, UK, taxation scale Australia the rates according to which personal income is taxed in various income brackets, often presented in the form of a table

Definitions

  1. tax scale US, UK, taxation scale Australia the rates according to which personal income is taxed in various income brackets, often presented in the form of a table

Ancestry of “veroasteikko”, step by step

veroasteikko traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish asteikko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasteikkoscale
2Finnish-ikkoForms nouns for groups of a particular number,...
3Proto-Finnic-ikkoForms nouns indicating a group of things
4Proto-Finnic-i-Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive)

via Finnish vero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishverotax
2Proto-Finnicveromeal
Every word from Proto-Finnic -i- →Every word from Finnish -ikko →Every word from Finnish asteikko →