Where does “jouhittaa” come from?

jouhittaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

jouhittaa (Finnish): to hair to string the bow for a violin

Definitions

  1. to hair to string the bow for a violin

Ancestry of “jouhittaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →