Where does “niuhottaminen” come from?
niuhottaminen (Finnish) comes from Finnish niuhottaa, from Finnish -ttää, from Proto-Finnic -ttadak, from Proto-Uralic -kta-.
Ancestry of “niuhottaminen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | niuhottaa | to complain pedantically about something that is insignificant according to the speaker; to complain about fine points that are not really important |
| 2 | Finnish | -ttää | Front vowel variant of -ttaa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |