Where does “hiipijä” come from?

hiipijä (Finnish) comes from Finnish hiipiä, from Finnish hiipata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

hiipijä (Finnish): sneaker one who sneaks

Definitions

  1. sneaker one who sneaks

Ancestry of “hiipijä”, step by step

hiipijä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hiipiä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhiipiäto sneak; to tiptoe; to creep
2FinnishhiipataSynonym of hiippailla
3Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
4Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
5Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
6Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish jä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjäice
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*ja—
3Proto-Germanicjahwand, also
4Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
5Proto-Germanic-hwe—
6Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

Words derived from “hiipijä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →