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Where does “myötä-” come from?

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

Ancestry of “myötä-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmyötäfor; along
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-ta—
4Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →