Where does “viivailla” come from?

viivailla (Finnish) comes from Finnish viivata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

Ancestry of “viivailla”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviivatato draw a line or lines
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →