Where does “soittaa” come from?

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

soittaa (Finnish): to play; to phone, call; to ring, toll

Definitions

  1. to play; to phone, call; to ring, toll

Ancestry of “soittaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “soittaa”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →
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