Where does “nasutus” come from?
nasutus (Latin) comes from Finnish nasuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
nasutus (Latin): big-nosed; that has a large nose; satirical,...
Definitions
- big-nosed; that has a large nose; satirical,...
Ancestry of “nasutus”, step by step
nasutus traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish nasuttaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nasuttaa | to haze first-year high school students in a nasujaiset event |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Latin nāsus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | nāsus | The nose |
| 2 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
via Finnish us
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | us | -ing |