Where does “taaperoikäinen” come from?

taaperoikäinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish taaperoikä, from Finnish taapero, from Finnish taapertaa, from Finnish -ertaa, from Finnish -taa, from Proto-Finnic -tadak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

taaperoikäinen (Finnish): (that is) the age of a toddler

Definitions

  1. (that is) the age of a toddler

Ancestry of “taaperoikäinen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtaaperoikätoddler stage
2Finnishtaaperotoddler
3Finnishtaapertaato toddle; Third-person singular indicative...
4Finnish-ertaaDerives intransitive verbs, mostly of descriptive...
5Finnish-taaForms causative verbs; Forms verbs from nouns and...
6Proto-Finnic-tadakForms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems
7Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta-Every word from Proto-Finnic -tadakEvery word from Finnish -taa
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