Where does “jäljitelmä” come from?
jäljitelmä (Finnish) comes from Finnish jäljitellä, from Finnish jäljittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
jäljitelmä (Finnish): imitation, knock-off; counterfeit, fake
Definitions
- imitation, knock-off; counterfeit, fake
Ancestry of “jäljitelmä”, step by step
jäljitelmä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish jäljitellä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jäljitellä | to imitate; to mimic, ape, mock |
| 2 | Finnish | jäljittää | to track, trace; to track; to track down |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |