Where does “vanhahtavasti” come from?
vanhahtavasti (Finnish) comes from Finnish vanhahtava, from Finnish -ahtava, from Finnish -ähtää, from Proto-Finnic -ahtadak, from Proto-Uralic -ašta-.
vanhahtavasti (Finnish): in a dated or old-fashioned way
Definitions
- in a dated or old-fashioned way
Ancestry of “vanhahtavasti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vanhahtava | dated, archaic, old-fashioned |
| 2 | Finnish | -ahtava | Forms adjectives with meanings of likeness and similarity: -ish, -y, -esque |
| 3 | Finnish | -ähtää | Front vowel variant of -ahtaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ahtadak | Forms momentane verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ašta- | — |