Where does “spermanluovuttaja” come from?
spermanluovuttaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish luovuttaja, from Finnish luovuttaa, from Finnish luopua, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
spermanluovuttaja (Finnish): sperm donor
Ancestry of “spermanluovuttaja”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | luovuttaja | One who surrenders, gives up; donor |
| 2 | Finnish | luovuttaa | to hand over, surrender, give up, deliver,... |
| 3 | Finnish | luopua | to abandon, relinquish |
| 4 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |