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Where does “vuorovesivirtaus” come from?

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

vuorovesivirtaus (Finnish): tidal current; riptide, rip tide

Definitions

  1. tidal current; riptide, rip tide

Ancestry of “vuorovesivirtaus”, step by step

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