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Where does “seka-avioliitto” come from?

seka-avioliitto (Finnish) comes from Finnish avioliitto, from Finnish liitto, from Finnish liittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

seka-avioliitto (Finnish): mixed marriage

Definitions

  1. mixed marriage

Ancestry of “seka-avioliitto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishavioliittomarriage
2Finnishliittocooperation based on common agreement, union;...
3Finnishliittääto join, connect, attach, fasten; to attach,...
4Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →