-tusten

Finnish

Etymology

From -us +‎ -ten, the initial -t- perhaps by analogy with -ttain.

Suffix

-tusten (front vowel harmony variant -tysten, linguistic notation -tUsten)

1. Forms oppositive adverbs.

   kasvot (“face”) → kasvotusten (“face-to-face”)

   selkä (“back”) → selätysten (“back-to-back”)

   vieri (“side”) → vieretysten (“side-by-side”)

Derived terms

Finnish terms suffixed with -tusten

Anagrams

• sutten