Where does “näpsä-” come from?

näpsä- (Finnish) comes from Finnish näppärä, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

Ancestry of “näpsä-”, step by step

näpsä- traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish näppärä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnäppärädexterous; nifty
2Finnish-raForms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal...
3Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
4Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

via Finnish sä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsäyou, ya
2Finnishsinäyou second-person singular personal pronoun, used in familiar or neutral contexts, thou
3Proto-Finniccinäyou
4Proto-Uralictinäyou, thou

Words derived from “näpsä-”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →