Where does “pingottaja” come from?

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

pingottaja (Finnish): stretcher, tensioner

Definitions

  1. stretcher, tensioner

Ancestry of “pingottaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpingottaato stretch, tension; to study hard
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →