Where does “viljankuivatus” come from?
viljankuivatus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuivatus, from Finnish kuivattaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
viljankuivatus (Finnish): grain drying
Ancestry of “viljankuivatus”, step by step
viljankuivatus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kuivatus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuivatus | drying the action of drying or making dry |
| 2 | Finnish | kuivattaa | to dry |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish Vilja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Vilja | grain, cereal, corn type of grass cultivated for its edible grains |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | vilja | grain, cereal; abundance, plenty |