Where does “neulahuovutus” come from?
neulahuovutus (Finnish) comes from Finnish huovutus, from Finnish huovuttaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
neulahuovutus (Finnish): needle felting
Ancestry of “neulahuovutus”, step by step
neulahuovutus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish huovutus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | huovutus | fulling, waulking; felting, wet felting |
| 2 | Finnish | huovuttaa | to full, felt, waulk |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |
via Finnish neula
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | neula | needle; needle, stylus |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | neekla | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | nēþlō | needle |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)neh₁- | to spin (thread), to sew |