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Where does “ahmattiankerias” come from?

ahmattiankerias (Finnish) comes from Finnish ahmatti, from Finnish -tti, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

ahmattiankerias (Finnish): gulper eel

Definitions

  1. gulper eel

Ancestry of “ahmattiankerias”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishahmattiglutton; gourmand
2Finnish-ttiForms some nouns from verbs, particularly...
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →