Where does “näyttää” come from?

näyttää (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

näyttää (Finnish): to show, present; to seem to do, appear to do; to...

Definitions

  1. to show, present; to seem to do, appear to do; to...

Ancestry of “näyttää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “näyttää”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttaa →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →