Where does “hymyilyttää” come from?

hymyilyttää (Finnish) comes from Finnish -uttaa, from Ingrian -ua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

hymyilyttää (Finnish): to make someone smile, to amuse often in particular to arouse derisive or contemptuous amusement

Definitions

  1. to make someone smile, to amuse often in particular to arouse derisive or contemptuous amusement

Ancestry of “hymyilyttää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-uttaaaivastaa + API → aivastuttaa; rakentaa + API →...
2Ingrian-uaUsed to form inchoative verbs
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -uttaa →
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