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Where does “vaivuttaa” come from?

vaivuttaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

vaivuttaa (Finnish): to put into

Definitions

  1. to put into

Ancestry of “vaivuttaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
2Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
3Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →