Where does “lakitus” come from?

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

lakitus (Finnish): The act of putting a hat on someone's head

Definitions

  1. The act of putting a hat on someone's head

Ancestry of “lakitus”, step by step

lakitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lakittaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishlakittaaTo put a hat on someone's head
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →