Where does “hoipertelu” come from?
hoipertelu (Finnish) comes from Finnish hoiperrella, from Finnish hoipertaa, from Finnish hoippua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk.
hoipertelu (Finnish): stagger
Ancestry of “hoipertelu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | hoiperrella | To walk unsteadily; to stagger |
| 2 | Finnish | hoipertaa | To walk unsteadily; to stagger |
| 3 | Finnish | hoippua | — |
| 4 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | — |