Where does “sulattaja” come from?

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

sulattaja (Finnish): founder, smelter worker in charge of the blast furnace and smelting

Definitions

  1. founder, smelter worker in charge of the blast furnace and smelting

Ancestry of “sulattaja”, 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- →Every word from Finnish -ttaa →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →
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