Where does “virtaamaton” come from?

virtaamaton (Finnish) comes from Finnish -mätön, from Proto-Finnic -mat'oin, from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.

virtaamaton (Finnish): stagnant, not flowing

Definitions

  1. stagnant, not flowing

Ancestry of “virtaamaton”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-mätönFront vowel variant of -maton
2Proto-Finnic-mat'oinForms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective
3Proto-Finnic-t'oin-less
4Proto-Uralic-ktama—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ktama →Every word from Finnish -mätön →Every word from Proto-Finnic -t'oin →