Where does “kahvaton” come from?

kahvaton (Finnish) comes from Finnish -tön, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.

kahvaton (Finnish): handleless

Definitions

  1. handleless

Ancestry of “kahvaton”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-tönFront vowel variant of -ton
2Proto-Finnic-t'oin-less
3Proto-Uralic-ktama—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ktama →Every word from Finnish -tön →Every word from Proto-Finnic -t'oin →
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