Where does “haistelu” come from?

haistelu (Finnish) comes from Finnish haistella, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.

haistelu (Finnish): smelling, sniffing of something

Definitions

  1. smelling, sniffing of something

Ancestry of “haistelu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhaistellato smell, sniff something; to sniff, huff, inhale...
2Finnish-ellaForms . The resulting verb often describes a more...
3Proto-Finnic-eldakForms frequentative verbs
4Proto-Uralic-le-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -le- →Every word from Finnish -ella →Every word from Finnish haistella →