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Where does “kehräävä” come from?

kehräävä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kehrätä, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

kehräävä (Finnish): purring, purrlike; Present active participle of...

Definitions

  1. purring, purrlike; Present active participle of...

Ancestry of “kehräävä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkehrätäto spin; to purr
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-ta—
4Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →