Where does “sortua” come from?
sortua (Finnish) comes from Ingrian -ua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
sortua (Finnish): to crumble, fall, collapse, cave in
Definitions
- to crumble, fall, collapse, cave in
Ancestry of “sortua”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ingrian | -ua | — |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |