Where does “laikutus” come from?
laikutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish laikuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
laikutus (Finnish): screefing, removing sections of topsoil in spots
Definitions
- screefing, removing sections of topsoil in spots
Ancestry of “laikutus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | laikuttaa | to remove sections of topsoil in patches or spots, to screef |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |