Where does “loruta” come from?
loruta (Finnish) comes from Finnish loru, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u.
loruta (Finnish): to chatter, blather
Ancestry of “loruta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | loru | short rhyme, e.g. nursery rhyme |
| 2 | Finnish | -u | Forms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -u | — |