Where does “tukahdutus” come from?
tukahdutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tukahduttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
tukahdutus (Finnish): smothering, suppressing, stifling; crackdown, repression
Definitions
- smothering, suppressing, stifling; crackdown, repression
Ancestry of “tukahdutus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tukahduttaa | to smother, stifle, suffocate cause someone or something difficulty in breathing, e.g. due to heat, a wrapping or covering |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |