Where does “kevittää” come from?

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

Ancestry of “kevittää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “kevittää”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →
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