Where does “kuuruttaa” come from?

kuuruttaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

kuuruttaa (Finnish): in the game of hide and seek: to be the seeker

Definitions

  1. in the game of hide and seek: to be the seeker

Ancestry of “kuuruttaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →