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Where does “härmettyä” come from?

härmettyä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

härmettyä (Finnish): to frost

Definitions

  1. to frost

Ancestry of “härmettyä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttuaForms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs...
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
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