Where does “näpsästi” come from?

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

näpsästi (Finnish): niftily

Definitions

  1. niftily

Ancestry of “näpsästi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnäpsä-
2Finnishnäppärädexterous; nifty
3Finnish-raForms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal...
4Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
5Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j