Where does “pehmitösmerkki” come from?

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

pehmitösmerkki (Ingrian): palatalisation mark

Definitions

  1. palatalisation mark

Ancestry of “pehmitösmerkki”, step by step

pehmitösmerkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ingrian pehmitös

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianpehmitössoftening
2Finnishpehmittääto soften
3Finnish-ittaaVariant of -ttaa used with some bisyllabic stems
4Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
5Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
6Proto-Uralic-kta-—

via Finnish merkki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmerkkimark, sign; character; symbol
2Old Swedishmærki—
3Old Norsemerkiboundary
4Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Finnish -ittaa →