Where does “noitakonsti” come from?

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

Ancestry of “noitakonsti”, step by step

noitakonsti 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 konsti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkonstigimmick, trick, way, manner
2Swedishkonstan art; an art, a science, a trick, knowledge; an...
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