Where does “pehmite” come from?
pehmite (Finnish) comes from Finnish pehmittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
pehmite (Finnish): softener
Definitions
- softener
Ancestry of “pehmite”, step by step
pehmite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pehmittää
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pehmittää | to soften |
| 2 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish e
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | e | E note |