Where does “pehmitös” come from?

pehmitös (Ingrian) comes from Finnish pehmittää, from Finnish -ittaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

pehmitös (Ingrian): softening

Definitions

  1. softening

Ancestry of “pehmitös”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpehmittääto soften
2Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—

Words derived from “pehmitös”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →