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Where does “pimentyä” come from?

pimentyä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pimentää, from Finnish pimetä, from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

pimentyä (Finnish): To darken

Definitions

  1. To darken

Ancestry of “pimentyä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpimentääto darken
2Finnishpimetäto darken, to get dark
3Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
4Proto-Finnic-t'ak—
5Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

Words derived from “pimentyä”

  • kuunpimennys
  • uutispimennys
  • pimennys
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