Where does “upotuskaste” come from?
upotuskaste (Finnish) comes from Finnish upotus, from Finnish upottaa, from Finnish -ttaa, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
upotuskaste (Finnish): immersion
Ancestry of “upotuskaste”, step by step
upotuskaste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish upotus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | upotus | immersion; embedding; inlay |
| 2 | Finnish | upottaa | to sink; to flood; to submerge, immerse |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish kaste
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kaste | dew; baptism, christening |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | kastek | dew |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | kastadak | to wet, to soak; to dip, to immerse |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |