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Where does “rustottua” come from?

rustottua (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

rustottua (Finnish): to form cartilage, gristle; to chondrify

Definitions

  1. to form cartilage, gristle; to chondrify

Ancestry of “rustottua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttuaForms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs...
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
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