Where does “tartuntatauti” come from?

tartuntatauti (Finnish) comes from Finnish tauti, from Proto-Finnic tauti, from Proto-Norse dauđi.

tartuntatauti (Finnish): contagious disease

Definitions

  1. contagious disease

Ancestry of “tartuntatauti”, step by step

tartuntatauti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tauti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtautidisease
2Proto-Finnictautidisease, sickness
3Proto-Norsedauđi—

via Finnish tartunta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtartuntacontagion, infection
2Finnish-ntäFront vowel variant of -nta; API
3Proto-Finnic-ntaForms action nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Norse dauđi →Every word from Proto-Finnic tauti →Every word from Finnish tauti →
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