Where does “epuu” come from?

epuu (Finnish) comes from Finnish evätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

epuu (Finnish): refusal

Definitions

  1. refusal

Ancestry of “epuu”, step by step

epuu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish evätä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishevätäTo deny somebody something, refuse to give...
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish uu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishuuThe name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest
2LatinU
3LatinVve
4Etruscan?u
Every word from Proto-Uralic -täEvery word from Finnish -täEvery word from Finnish evätä