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Where does “namusetä” come from?

namusetä (Finnish) comes from Finnish namu, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u.

namusetä (Finnish): kiddy fiddler

Definitions

  1. kiddy fiddler

Ancestry of “namusetä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnamusweet, candy
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-u—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →