Where does “näpsäkkä” come from?

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

näpsäkkä (Finnish): nifty, dexterous, clever

Definitions

  1. nifty, dexterous, clever

Ancestry of “näpsäkkä”, step by step

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

Words derived from “näpsäkkä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →Every word from Finnish -ra →