Where does “puhuttelunimi” come from?
puhuttelunimi (Finnish) comes from Finnish puhuttelu, from Finnish puhutella, from Finnish puhuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “puhuttelunimi”, step by step
puhuttelunimi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish puhuttelu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | puhuttelu | accosting, speaking, addressing |
| 2 | Finnish | puhutella | to accost to speak to first, to address, to speak to, to address |
| 3 | Finnish | puhuttaa | to be discussed, to get people talking |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |