Where does “jännittävä” come from?
jännittävä (Finnish) comes from Finnish jännittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
jännittävä (Finnish): thrilling, exciting; interesting; Present active...
Definitions
- thrilling, exciting; interesting; Present active...
Ancestry of “jännittävä”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | jännittää | to tense; to tension; to flex |
| 2 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
Words derived from “jännittävä”