Where does “baittaus” come from?

baittaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish baitata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

baittaus (Finnish): imitation, aping

Definitions

  1. imitation, aping

Ancestry of “baittaus”, step by step

baittaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish baitata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishbaitataTo imitate, copy, ape
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →