Where does “tartuttaja” come from?

tartuttaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish tartuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

tartuttaja (Finnish): carrier, vector someone who has an infection and spreads it to someone else

Definitions

  1. carrier, vector someone who has an infection and spreads it to someone else

Ancestry of “tartuttaja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtartuttaato infect, spread (a disease)
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “tartuttaja”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →
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