Where does “flirttaus” come from?

flirttaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish flirtata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

flirttaus (Finnish): flirt

Definitions

  1. flirt

Ancestry of “flirttaus”, step by step

flirttaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish flirtata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishflirtataTo flirt
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 →