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Where does “loikka” come from?

loikka (Finnish) comes from Finnish loikata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

loikka (Finnish): A leap

Definitions

  1. A leap

Ancestry of “loikka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishloikataTo leap; To defect
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-ta—
4Proto-Uralic-tä

Words derived from “loikka”

  • loikkia
  • kolmiloikka
  • loikata
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →