Where does “supertartuttaja” come from?

supertartuttaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish tartuttaja, from Finnish tartuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

supertartuttaja (Finnish): superspreader

Definitions

  1. superspreader

Ancestry of “supertartuttaja”, step by step

supertartuttaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tartuttaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtartuttajacarrier, vector someone who has an infection and spreads it to someone else
2Finnishtartuttaato infect, spread (a disease)
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-

via Finnish super

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsuper
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta-
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