Where does “virtauksenjakaja” come from?

virtauksenjakaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish virtaus, from Finnish virrata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

virtauksenjakaja (Finnish): flow divider

Definitions

  1. flow divider

Ancestry of “virtauksenjakaja”, step by step

virtauksenjakaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish virtaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvirtauscurrent
2Finnishvirratato flow, stream
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish jakaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjakajadeliveryman; distributor; divisor
2Finnishjakaato share; to distribute; to divide; to mete out,...
3Proto-Finnicjakadakto share, to distribute
4Proto-Uralicjëka-divide
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish virrata →