Where does “kummeta” come from?

kummeta (Finnish) comes from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

kummeta (Finnish): To get any better

Definitions

  1. To get any better

Ancestry of “kummeta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
2Proto-Finnic-t'akForms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning
3Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta- →Every word from Finnish -etä →Every word from Proto-Finnic -t'ak →
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