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Where does “sulate” come from?

sulate (Finnish) comes from Finnish sulattaa, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

sulate (Finnish): flux

Definitions

  1. flux

Ancestry of “sulate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsulattaato melt; to smelt; to thaw, defrost
2Finnish-ttaaForms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs...
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →