Where does “nöyryyttää” come from?
nöyryyttää (Finnish) comes from Finnish uuttaa, from Finnish uu, from Latin U, from Latin V, from Etruscan ? — u.
nöyryyttää (Finnish): To humiliate
Ancestry of “nöyryyttää”, step by step
nöyryyttää traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish uuttaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | uuttaa | to extract; Third-person singular indicative... |
| 2 | Finnish | uu | The name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest |
| 3 | Latin | U | — |
| 4 | Latin | V | ve |
| 5 | Etruscan | ? | u |
via Finnish nöyrä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nöyrä | humble; meek |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | netra | weak; frail; poor |
Words derived from “nöyryyttää”