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Where does “hämäys” come from?

hämäys (Finnish) comes from Finnish hämätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

hämäys (Finnish): trickery, misrepresentation, skulduggery

Definitions

  1. trickery, misrepresentation, skulduggery

Ancestry of “hämäys”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhämätäTo confuse, to obfuscate, to jive
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-ta—
4Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →