Where does “olettamus” come from?
olettamus (Finnish) comes from Finnish olettaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
olettamus (Finnish): assumption; hypothesis
Ancestry of “olettamus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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- | — |