Where does “Pikkuhuuhkajat” come from?

Pikkuhuuhkajat (Finnish) comes from Finnish pikku, from Finnish pieni, from Proto-Finnic peeni — little, small; fine.

Pikkuhuuhkajat (Finnish): A nickname of the Finland national under-21 soccer team

Definitions

  1. A nickname of the Finland national under-21 soccer team

Ancestry of “Pikkuhuuhkajat”, step by step

Pikkuhuuhkajat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pikku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpikkulittle, small; little old
2Finnishpienilittle, small; Third-person singular indicative...
3Proto-Finnicpeenilittle, small; fine

via Finnish Huuhkajat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishHuuhkajatA nickname of the Finnish national soccer team
Every word from Proto-Finnic peeni
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