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Where does “sorvata” come from?

sorvata (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

sorvata (Finnish): to lathe; to work a job or task

Definitions

  1. to lathe; to work a job or task

Ancestry of “sorvata”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-ta—
4Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →