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Where does “virittää” come from?

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

virittää (Finnish): to tune; to voice; to tune in

Definitions

  1. to tune; to voice; to tune in

Ancestry of “virittää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
2Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
3Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
4Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “virittää”

  • viritys
  • viritellä
  • virittyä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →