Where does “hämäys” come from?

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

hämäys (Finnish): trickery, misrepresentation, skulduggery

Definitions

  1. trickery, misrepresentation, skulduggery

Ancestry of “hämäys”, step by step

hämäys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hämätä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhämätäTo confuse, to obfuscate, to jive
2Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
3Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
4Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -tä →Every word from Finnish hämätä →