Where does “kasvatusäiti” come from?
kasvatusäiti (Finnish) comes from Finnish kasvatus, from Finnish kasvattaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
kasvatusäiti (Finnish): foster mother, adoptive mother
Definitions
- foster mother, adoptive mother
Ancestry of “kasvatusäiti”, step by step
kasvatusäiti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kasvatus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kasvatus | rearing; upbringing; raising |
| 2 | Finnish | kasvattaa | To let grow; To grow, raise, breed; To rear,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish äiti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | äiti | mother; the letter "Ä" in the Finnish spelling... |
| 2 | Finnish | äitei | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | aiþį̄ | mother |