Where does “sortumakaivo” come from?
sortumakaivo (Finnish) comes from Finnish sortua, from Ingrian -ua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
sortumakaivo (Finnish): sinkhole hole formed in soluble rock
Definitions
- sinkhole hole formed in soluble rock
Ancestry of “sortumakaivo”, step by step
sortumakaivo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish sortua
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sortua | to crumble, fall, collapse, cave in |
| 2 | Ingrian | -ua | Used to form inchoative verbs |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish kaivo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kaivo | well |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | kaivo | well |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |