Where does “erityisopettaja” come from?
erityisopettaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish opettaja, from Finnish opettaa, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
erityisopettaja (Finnish): special education teacher
Definitions
- special education teacher
Ancestry of “erityisopettaja”, step by step
erityisopettaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish opettaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | opettaja | teacher |
| 2 | Finnish | opettaa | to teach, instruct |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish erityinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | erityinen | special; specific |
| 2 | Finnish | eri | different, other, another; different, separate;... |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *erei | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | er- | eagle, bird; loose, light, rare, sparse; to fail,... |