Where does “sepitelmä” come from?

sepitelmä (Finnish) comes from Finnish sepittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

sepitelmä (Finnish): fable, fabrication

Definitions

  1. fable, fabrication

Ancestry of “sepitelmä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsepittääto make up (a story), to coin (a word)
2Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttaa →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →