Where does “vaikenoittaa” come from?

vaikenoittaa (Ingrian) comes from Finnish vajeta, from Finnish -etä, from Proto-Finnic -t'ak, from Proto-Uralic -ta- — Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

vaikenoittaa (Ingrian): to calm down

Definitions

  1. to calm down

Ancestry of “vaikenoittaa”, step by step

vaikenoittaa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish vajeta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvajetato lower, fall, sink
2Finnish-etäFront vowel variant of -eta
3Proto-Finnic-t'akForms verbs from nominal stems, generally with a causative, factitive or instrumental meaning
4Proto-Uralic-ta-Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs...

via Ingrian vaiketa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianvaiketato calm down; quiet down
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*vaikka—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ta- →Every word from Finnish -etä →Every word from Proto-Finnic -t'ak →