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Where does “tylsetä” come from?

tylsetä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

tylsetä (Finnish): To become duller, more boring; To dull

Definitions

  1. To become duller, more boring; To dull

Ancestry of “tylsetä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
2Proto-Finnic-t'ak—
3Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta- →