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Where does “synkentää” come from?

synkentää (Finnish) comes from Finnish synketä, from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

synkentää (Finnish): to darken, make gloomier; to make more dismal or...

Definitions

  1. to darken, make gloomier; to make more dismal or...

Ancestry of “synkentää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsynketäTo darken; To become gloomy
2Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
3Proto-Finnic-t'ak—
4Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta- →