Where does “viritelmä” come from?

viritelmä (Finnish) comes from Finnish virittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

viritelmä (Finnish): setup, apparatus, especially a complicated or overly complicated one: contraption

Definitions

  1. setup, apparatus, especially a complicated or overly complicated one: contraption

Ancestry of “viritelmä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvirittääto tune; to voice; to tune in
2Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →