Where does “olettama” come from?
olettama (Finnish) comes from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.
olettama (Finnish): presumption; Agent participle of olettaa
Definitions
- presumption; Agent participle of olettaa
Ancestry of “olettama”, step by step
olettama traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish mä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mä | I |
| 2 | Finnish | minä | I; ego; self |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | minä | I, me |
| 4 | Uralic | *minä | — |
via Finnish olettaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | olettaa | to assume, suppose, presuppose; to premise,... |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
Words derived from “olettama”