Where does “sepittely” come from?
sepittely (Finnish) comes from Finnish sepitellä, from Finnish sepittää, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
sepittely (Finnish): (repeatedly) fabling or making up
Definitions
- (repeatedly) fabling or making up
Ancestry of “sepittely”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | sepitellä | — |
| 2 | Finnish | sepittää | to make up (a story), to coin (a word) |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |