Where does “mopotus” come from?
mopotus (Finnish) comes from Finnish mopottaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
mopotus (Finnish): hazing initiation rite in a school
Definitions
- hazing initiation rite in a school
Ancestry of “mopotus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | mopottaa | To shaft to engage in a malicious act |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |