Where does “pistämätön” come from?

pistämätön (Finnish) comes from Finnish -mätön, from Proto-Finnic -mat'oin, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.

pistämätön (Finnish): invincible, unbeatable

Definitions

  1. invincible, unbeatable

Ancestry of “pistämätön”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-mätönFront vowel variant of -maton
2Proto-Finnic-mat'oinForms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective
3Proto-Finnic-t'oin-less
4Proto-Uralic-ktama—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ktama →Every word from Finnish -mätön →Every word from Proto-Finnic -t'oin →
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