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Where does “yksitellen” come from?

yksitellen (Finnish) comes from Finnish -tellen, from Finnish -tellä, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

yksitellen (Finnish): one by one, one at a time

Definitions

  1. one by one, one at a time

Ancestry of “yksitellen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-tellen—
2Finnish-telläFront vowel variant of -tella
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →