Where does “soitto” come from?

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

soitto (Finnish): music; playing; call, telephone call; ring; bell

Definitions

  1. music; playing; call, telephone call; ring; bell

Ancestry of “soitto”, step by step

soitto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish soittaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsoittaato play; to phone, call; to ring, toll
2Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-

via Finnish o

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnisho

Words derived from “soitto

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta-
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