Where does “itsekidutus” come from?
itsekidutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kidutus, from Finnish kiduttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
itsekidutus (Finnish): self-torture, self-torment
Definitions
- self-torture, self-torment
Ancestry of “itsekidutus”, step by step
itsekidutus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kidutus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kidutus | torture |
| 2 | Finnish | kiduttaa | to torture |
| 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 |