Where does “kiinnikasvettuma” come from?
kiinnikasvettuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish kasvettuma, from Finnish kasvettua, from Finnish -ttua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “kiinnikasvettuma”, step by step
kiinnikasvettuma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kasvettuma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kasvettuma | growing together or shut; an instance of such |
| 2 | Finnish | kasvettua | to grow together or shut |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |