Where does “viritin-vahvistin” come from?

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

Ancestry of “viritin-vahvistin”, step by step

viritin-vahvistin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish viritin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviritintuner
2Finnishvirittääto tune; to voice; to tune in
3Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
4Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish vahvistin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvahvistinamplifier; First-person singular indicative past...
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →