Where does “vesikidutus” come from?
vesikidutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kidutus, from Finnish kiduttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
vesikidutus (Finnish): waterboarding; water torture
Definitions
- waterboarding; water torture
Ancestry of “vesikidutus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | kidutus | torture |
| 2 | Finnish | kiduttaa | to torture |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |