Where does “lystätä” come from?

lystätä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

lystätä (Finnish): to please to desire; to will; to be pleased by

Definitions

  1. to please to desire; to will; to be pleased by

Ancestry of “lystätä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →