Where does “pehmitellä” come from?

pehmitellä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pehmittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

pehmitellä (Finnish): to soft-pedal

Definitions

  1. to soft-pedal

Ancestry of “pehmitellä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpehmittääto soften
2Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →