Where does “suolasirotin” come from?
suolasirotin (Finnish) comes from Finnish sirotin, from Finnish sirottaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
suolasirotin (Finnish): salt shaker
Ancestry of “suolasirotin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | sirotin | shaker; First-person singular indicative past... |
| 2 | Finnish | sirottaa | to scatter, spread, sprinkle |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |