Where does “selvitellä” come from?

selvitellä (Finnish) comes from Finnish selvittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

selvitellä (Finnish): to sort out

Definitions

  1. to sort out

Ancestry of “selvitellä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishselvittääto make clear, clarify; to examine, investigate,...
2Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “selvitellä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →