Where does “sormitus” come from?
sormitus (Finnish) comes from Finnish sormittaa, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
sormitus (Finnish): fingering
Definitions
- fingering
Ancestry of “sormitus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sormittaa | 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 |
| 2 | Finnish | -ittaa | Variant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |