Where does “kidutus” come from?

kidutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kiduttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

kidutus (Finnish): torture

Definitions

  1. torture

Ancestry of “kidutus”, step by step

kidutus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kiduttaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiduttaato torture
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing

Words derived from “kidutus”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →