Where does “kukaties” come from?
kukaties (Finnish) comes from Finnish ties, from Finnish tietää, from Finnish -mätön, from Proto-Finnic -mat'oin, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.
kukaties (Finnish): possibly, perhaps
Definitions
- possibly, perhaps
Ancestry of “kukaties”, step by step
kukaties traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ties
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ties | God knows, who knows |
| 2 | Finnish | tietää | to know, be aware of; to signify, mean, presage,... |
| 3 | Finnish | -mätön | Front vowel variant of -maton |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -mat'oin | Forms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -t'oin | -less |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -ktama | — |
via Finnish kuka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuka | who; which one; whoever; who, when the pronoun... |