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Where does “-ttaa” come from?

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

-ttaa (Finnish): Front vowel variant of -ttaa

Definitions

  1. Front vowel variant of -ttaa

Ancestry of “-ttaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
2Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →