Where does “hervahtaa” come from?

hervahtaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish hervota, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

hervahtaa (Finnish): to flop, slacken, loosen

Definitions

  1. to flop, slacken, loosen

Ancestry of “hervahtaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhervotato loosen
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish hervota →