-alta

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Finnish

Etymology

From -a- +‎ -lta; see -alla for the initial component.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-alta (front vowel harmony variant -ältä, linguistic notation -AltA)

  1. The delative case suffix, used to form some adverbs.

Derived terms