Where does “noita-akka” come from?

noita-akka (Finnish) comes from Finnish noita, from Proto-Finnic noita, from Proto-Finno-Ugric nojta.

noita-akka (Finnish): witch, hag

Definitions

  1. witch, hag

Ancestry of “noita-akka”, step by step

noita-akka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish noita

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishnoitaA witch; Partitive plural form of nuo
2Proto-Finnicnoitawitch
3Proto-Finno-Ugricnojta—

via Finnish akka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishakkahag, crone; woman; wife; hag, witch; queen, bitch
2Proto-Finnicakkaold woman
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric nojta →Every word from Proto-Finnic noita →Every word from Finnish noita →