Where does “itsekasvatus” come from?
itsekasvatus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kasvatus, from Finnish kasvattaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
itsekasvatus (Finnish): self-education, self-development
Definitions
- self-education, self-development
Ancestry of “itsekasvatus”, step by step
itsekasvatus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kasvatus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kasvatus | rearing; upbringing; raising |
| 2 | Finnish | kasvattaa | To let grow; To grow, raise, breed; To rear,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish itse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | itse | oneself; used to emphasize the person of the head... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | icek | self |
| 3 | Hebrew | יצחק | to laugh |