Where does “sormittaa” come from?

sormittaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

sormittaa (Finnish): to finger provide instructions about the use of fingers in music; use specified finger positions to produce notes on a musical instrument; use fingers in sign language

Definitions

  1. to finger provide instructions about the use of fingers in music; use specified finger positions to produce notes on a musical instrument; use fingers in sign language

Ancestry of “sormittaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “sormittaa”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →