Where does “suovata” come from?

suovata (Finnish) comes from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

suovata (Finnish): to gather into a haystack

Definitions

  1. to gather into a haystack

Ancestry of “suovata”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
2Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
3Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -tä →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ta →