Where does “itkukohtaus” come from?

itkukohtaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kohtaus, from Finnish kohdata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

itkukohtaus (Finnish): crying spell

Definitions

  1. crying spell

Ancestry of “itkukohtaus”, step by step

itkukohtaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kohtaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkohtausfit; attack; seizure; fit, spell; fit, frenzy
2Finnishkohdatato meet with, encounter; to undergo, experience,...
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish itku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishitkucry, crying
2Proto-Finnicitkucry
Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -taEvery word from Finnish kohdata
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