Where does “nokitus” come from?
nokitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish nokittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
nokitus (Finnish): raise; raising
Definitions
- raise; raising
Ancestry of “nokitus”, step by step
nokitus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish nokittaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nokittaa | to raise |
| 2 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish us
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | us | -ing |