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Where does “kellute” come from?

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

kellute (Finnish): floating material used to make something float

Definitions

  1. floating material used to make something float

Ancestry of “kellute”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkelluttaato float
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →