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Where does “pohjittaa” come from?
pohjittaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “pohjittaa”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Finnish
-ttää
Front vowel variant of -ttaa
2
Proto-Finnic
-ttadak
Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3
Proto-Uralic
-kta-
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