Where does “tapatus” come from?

tapatus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tapattaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

tapatus (Finnish): ordering to kill, having someone or something killed

Definitions

  1. ordering to kill, having someone or something killed

Ancestry of “tapatus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtapattaato order to kill
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →