Where does “pakotus” come from?
pakotus (Finnish) comes from Finnish pakottaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
pakotus (Finnish): forcing (someone to do something, etc.)
Definitions
- forcing (someone to do something, etc.)
Ancestry of “pakotus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | pakottaa | to force, compel, coerce, make to do something;... |
| 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 “pakotus”