Where does “ylleviivata” come from?

ylleviivata (Finnish) comes from Finnish viivata, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

ylleviivata (Finnish): to overline draw a line over

Definitions

  1. to overline draw a line over

Ancestry of “ylleviivata”, step by step

ylleviivata traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish viivata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviivatato draw a line or lines
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish ylle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishylleto above, over

Words derived from “ylleviivata”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →