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Where does “tapat” come from?

tapat (Finnish) comes from Finnish tappaa, from Proto-Finnic tappadak, from Proto-Uralic tappa- — trample.

tapat (Finnish): Second-person singular indicative present form of...

Definitions

  1. Second-person singular indicative present form of...

Ancestry of “tapat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishtappaaTo kill, slay
2Proto-Finnictappadakto kill, to slay
3Proto-Uralictappa-trample
Every word from Proto-Uralic tappa- →