Where does “nimitellä” come from?

nimitellä (Finnish) comes from Finnish nimittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

nimitellä (Finnish): to call names

Definitions

  1. to call names

Ancestry of “nimitellä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnimittääto assign, appoint; to name, dub, designate
2Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “nimitellä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →