Where does “itsesaastutus” come from?
itsesaastutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish saastutus, from Finnish saastuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
itsesaastutus (Finnish): self-pollution
Ancestry of “itsesaastutus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | saastutus | contamination |
| 2 | Finnish | saastuttaa | To pollute; To contaminate |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |