Where does “astutus” come from?

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

astutus (Finnish): service

Definitions

  1. service

Ancestry of “astutus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishastuttaato have (an animal) mounted/served/bred, to make serve/mount/breed (another animal)
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →