Where does “vuoksivirtaus” come from?

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

vuoksivirtaus (Finnish): flood current current caused by rising tide

Definitions

  1. flood current current caused by rising tide

Ancestry of “vuoksivirtaus”, step by step

vuoksivirtaus 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 vuoksi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvuoksi"genitive +" API + "possessive suffix"; due to,...
2Finnishvuoflow; flux
3PolishwuThe name of the Latin-script letter W
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish virrata →