Where does “sommitelma” come from?
sommitelma (Finnish) comes from Finnish sommitella, from Finnish sommittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
sommitelma (Finnish): an arrangement, a composition
Definitions
- an arrangement, a composition
Ancestry of “sommitelma”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sommitella | to compose, arrange, lay out arrange elements, such as of a picture |
| 2 | Finnish | sommittaa | to design (to fit), make fit |
| 3 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |