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Where does “veisuu” come from?

veisuu (Finnish) comes from Finnish veisata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

veisuu (Finnish): chanting, psalmody

Definitions

  1. chanting, psalmody

Ancestry of “veisuu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishveisatato psalm, sing; in the expression "viis veisata";...
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-ta—
5Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →