Where does “myrkytysmurha” come from?
myrkytysmurha (Finnish) comes from Finnish myrkytys, from Finnish myrkyttää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
myrkytysmurha (Finnish): murder by poisoning
Ancestry of “myrkytysmurha”, step by step
myrkytysmurha traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish myrkytys
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | myrkytys | poisoning |
| 2 | Finnish | myrkyttää | To poison |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish murha
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | murha | murder; first-degree murder |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | murþą | death; killing, murder |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | mr̥tós | dead; mortal |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | mer- | to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland |