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Where does “hälytin” come from?

hälytin (Finnish) comes from Finnish hälyttää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

hälytin (Finnish): alarm; First-person singular indicative past form...

Definitions

  1. alarm; First-person singular indicative past form...

Ancestry of “hälytin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhälyttääTo alarm
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “hälytin”

  • savuhälytin
  • palohälytin
  • autohälytin
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →