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Where does “sottaantua” come from?

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

sottaantua (Finnish): Synonym of likaantua

Definitions

  1. Synonym of likaantua

Ancestry of “sottaantua”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotatato soil, tarnish
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-ta—
5Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →