Where does “tarttumahäntä” come from?

tarttumahäntä (Finnish) comes from Finnish häntä, from Proto-Finnic häntä, from Proto-Uralic čänčä.

tarttumahäntä (Finnish): prehensile tail

Definitions

  1. prehensile tail

Ancestry of “tarttumahäntä”, step by step

tarttumahäntä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish häntä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhäntäa narrow tail; ogonek; Partitive form of hän
2Proto-Finnichäntätail
3Proto-Uralicčänčä—

via Finnish tarttua

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtarttuato catch, grab, seize; to be transmitted; to be...
2Proto-Finnictarttudakto stick, adhere
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