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Where does “hahattaa” come from?

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

hahattaa (Finnish): to laugh in a cruel or jeering manner

Definitions

  1. to laugh in a cruel or jeering manner

Ancestry of “hahattaa”, step by step

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

Words derived from “hahattaa”

  • hähätys
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →