Where does “hokema” come from?

hokema (Finnish) comes from Finnish mä, from Finnish minä, from Proto-Finnic minä, from Uralic *minä.

hokema (Finnish): parroting, cuckooing, mantra; catchphrase, bumper...

Definitions

  1. parroting, cuckooing, mantra; catchphrase, bumper...

Ancestry of “hokema”, step by step

hokema traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish mä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishmäI
2FinnishminäI; ego; self
3Proto-FinnicminäI, me
4Uralic*minä—

via Finnish hokea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhokeato repeat; to parrot; to cuckoo
2Proto-Finnichokedak—
3Proto-Finno-Permicšoke-—
Every word from Uralic *minä →Every word from Proto-Finnic minä →Every word from Finnish minä →