Where does “kaotus” come from?

kaotus (Estonian) comes from Estonian kaotama, from Estonian -tama, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

kaotus (Estonian): loss

Definitions

  1. loss

Ancestry of “kaotus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estoniankaotamato lose
2Estonian-tamaForms causative verbs. It can be translated as...
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →Every word from Estonian -tama →