Where does “lyhetä” come from?

lyhetä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

lyhetä (Finnish): To shorten, to become shorter

Definitions

  1. To shorten, to become shorter

Ancestry of “lyhetä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
2Proto-Finnic-t'akForms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning
3Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

Words derived from “lyhetä

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta-Every word from Finnish -etäEvery word from Proto-Finnic -t'ak