Where does “eläntä” come from?

eläntä (Karelian) comes from Karelian elyä, from Finnish -tti, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.

eläntä (Karelian): life

Definitions

  1. life

Ancestry of “eläntä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Karelianelyä—
2Finnish-ttiForms some nouns from verbs, particularly...
3Finnish-ttääFront vowel variant of -ttaa
4Proto-Finnic-ttadakCreates causative verbs from regular verbs,...
5Proto-Uralic-kta-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -kta- →Every word from Finnish -ttää →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ttadak →