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Where does “huimaus” come from?

huimaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish huimata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

huimaus (Finnish): dizziness, vertigo

Definitions

  1. dizziness, vertigo

Ancestry of “huimaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishhuimataTo make someone dizzy; "partitive + " 3rd-pers....
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-ta—
4Proto-Uralic-tä
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →