Where does “retkottaa” come from?
retkottaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish ottaa, from Proto-Finnic vottadak, from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- — to wind, to turn.
retkottaa (Finnish): to sprawl, to loll, to slouch
Definitions
- to sprawl, to loll, to slouch
Ancestry of “retkottaa”, step by step
retkottaa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ottaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ottaa | to take; to take, ingest or drink; to deprive of,... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | vottadak | to take |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | wendʰ- | to wind, to turn |
via Finnish retkua
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | retkua | to droop, to hang, to sprawl |
| 2 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs |