Where does “hiippailija” come from?
hiippailija (Finnish) comes from Finnish hiippailla, from Finnish hiipata, from Finnish hiipiä, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.
hiippailija (Finnish): sneak, sneaker
Ancestry of “hiippailija”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | hiippailla | To sneak; To tiptoe |
| 2 | Finnish | hiipata | Synonym of hiippailla |
| 3 | Finnish | hiipiä | to sneak; to tiptoe; to creep |
| 4 | Finnish | -ia | Forms primarily transitive verbs describing... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -idak | applicative suffix |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -j- | — |