Where does “ojittaa” come from?

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

ojittaa (Finnish): To ditch, to cut a trench

Definitions

  1. To ditch, to cut a trench

Ancestry of “ojittaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “ojittaa”

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