Where does “tunkata” come from?

tunkata (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

tunkata (Finnish): to jack use a jack; raise with a jack

Definitions

  1. to jack use a jack; raise with a jack

Ancestry of “tunkata”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →
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