Where does “räpätti” come from?

räpätti (Finnish) comes from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

räpätti (Finnish): device (often a playing card) installed on the wheel of a bicycle to produce a rattling sound

Definitions

  1. device (often a playing card) installed on the wheel of a bicycle to produce a rattling sound

Ancestry of “räpätti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
2Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →