Where does “pakottaa” come from?

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

pakottaa (Finnish): to force, compel, coerce, make to do something;...

Definitions

  1. to force, compel, coerce, make to do something;...

Ancestry of “pakottaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “pakottaa”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →