Where does “älyttää” come from?

älyttää (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

älyttää (Finnish): to outwit, outsmart; to trick, fool in a clever...

Definitions

  1. to outwit, outsmart; to trick, fool in a clever...

Ancestry of “älyttää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “älyttää”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →