Where does “kompata” come from?

kompata (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

kompata (Finnish): to accompany, to perform an accompanying part next to another instrument

Definitions

  1. to accompany, to perform an accompanying part next to another instrument

Ancestry of “kompata”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →