Where does “noitausko” come from?

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

noitausko (Finnish): belief in witches

Definitions

  1. belief in witches

Ancestry of “noitausko”, step by step

noitausko 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 usko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishuskofaith; religious; Indicative present connegative...
2Proto-Finnic*uskofaith, belief
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric nojta →Every word from Proto-Finnic noita →Every word from Finnish noita →