Where does “suitsutusaine” come from?
suitsutusaine (Finnish) comes from Finnish suitsutus, from Finnish suitsuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “suitsutusaine”, step by step
suitsutusaine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish suitsutus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | suitsutus | incensing |
| 2 | Finnish | suitsuttaa | to smoke; to cense; to elate |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |