Where does “ylentää” come from?

ylentää (Finnish) comes from Finnish yletä, from Finnish ylä-, from Finnish alhaalla, from Finnish ala-, from Proto-Finnic ala, from Proto-Uralic ëla — below.

ylentää (Finnish): To raise, lift, elevate; To promote someone to a...

Definitions

  1. To raise, lift, elevate; To promote someone to a...

Ancestry of “ylentää”, step by step

ylentää traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish yletä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishyletäTo rise; To grow; To move up, advance, be/get...
2Finnishylä-upper; superior, high, higher
3Finnishalhaalladown below, below; down (here/there)
4Finnishala-under-, sub-, lower, nether; inferior
5Proto-Finnicalalower; under
6Proto-Uralicëlabelow

via Finnish taa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishtaaOf movement, behind; a shorter form of taakse
2Finnishtakathe backside; In the expression "omasta takaa"...
3Proto-Finnictakaback, a place behind
4Proto-Uralictakaa place behind

Words derived from “ylentää”

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