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Where does “pronssiveistos” come from?

pronssiveistos (Finnish) comes from Finnish veistos, from Finnish veistää, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

pronssiveistos (Finnish): bronze sculpture

Definitions

  1. bronze sculpture

Ancestry of “pronssiveistos”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishveistosA sculpture
2Finnishveistääto carve, cut, whittle; to sculpture, sculpt, hew
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →