Where does “hüvitama” come from?
hüvitama (Estonian) comes from Estonian huvi, from Finnish huvi, from Finnish hupi, from Finnish hupa, from Proto-Finnic hupa, from Proto-Uralic čupa.
hüvitama (Estonian): to compensate; to repay; to make amends
Definitions
- to compensate; to repay; to make amends
Ancestry of “hüvitama”, step by step
hüvitama traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Estonian huvi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Estonian | huvi | interest |
| 2 | Finnish | huvi | amusement, pleasure |
| 3 | Finnish | hupi | fun |
| 4 | Finnish | hupa | quickly diminishing; funny |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | hupa | lean, thin |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | čupa | — |
via Finnish hyvittää
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hyvittää | To compensate, recompense, reimburse; To credit;... |
| 2 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
Words derived from “hüvitama”