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Where does “-tä” come from?

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

-tä (Finnish): Front vowel variant of -ta

Definitions

  1. Front vowel variant of -ta

Ancestry of “-tä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnic-ta—
2Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →