Where does “mätiä” come from?

mätiä (Finnish) comes from Finnish mädätä, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

mätiä (Finnish): To putrefy, produce pus; Partitive plural form...

Definitions

  1. To putrefy, produce pus; Partitive plural form...

Ancestry of “mätiä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmädätäTo rot; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ta →Every word from Finnish mädätä →