Where does “natottaa” come from?

natottaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

natottaa (Finnish): to promote a country's membership in NATO, to work actively to get a country to join NATO

Definitions

  1. to promote a country's membership in NATO, to work actively to get a country to join NATO

Ancestry of “natottaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →