Where does “selvittää” come from?

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

selvittää (Finnish): to make clear, clarify; to examine, investigate,...

Definitions

  1. to make clear, clarify; to examine, investigate,...

Ancestry of “selvittää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-

Words derived from “selvittää

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta-Every word from Finnish -ttääEvery word from Finnish -ittaa