Where does “mönjätä” come from?

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

mönjätä (Finnish): to paint something with red lead

Definitions

  1. to paint something with red lead

Ancestry of “mönjätä”, step by step

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