Where does “kummittelu” come from?

kummittelu (Finnish) comes from Finnish kummitella, from Finnish kumma, from Proto-Finnic kumma — strange, odd.

kummittelu (Finnish): haunting inhabiting or visiting repeatedly, of ghosts

Definitions

  1. haunting inhabiting or visiting repeatedly, of ghosts

Ancestry of “kummittelu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkummitellato haunt
2Finnishkummaodd, strange; "in comparative, with negation",...
3Proto-Finnickummastrange, odd
Every word from Proto-Finnic kumma →Every word from Finnish kumma →Every word from Finnish kummitella →