Where does “kuopitus” come from?

kuopitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuopittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

kuopitus (Finnish): trenching

Definitions

  1. trenching

Ancestry of “kuopitus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuopittaato dig holes or trenches (in)
2Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “kuopitus”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →