Where does “tupsutus” come from?
tupsutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish tupsuttaa, from Finnish tupsu, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
tupsutus (Finnish): tufting making into tufts; decorating with tufts
Definitions
- tufting making into tufts; decorating with tufts
Ancestry of “tupsutus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | tupsuttaa | to tuft make into tufts; decorate with tufts |
| 2 | Finnish | tupsu | tuft; bobble, pompom; tussle |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |