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Where does “hyvittää” come from?

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

hyvittää (Finnish): To compensate, recompense, reimburse; To credit;...

Definitions

  1. To compensate, recompense, reimburse; To credit;...

Ancestry of “hyvittää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “hyvittää”

  • hyvitys
  • hyvite
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →