Where does “noitavoima” come from?
noitavoima (Finnish) comes from Finnish voima, from Proto-Finnic voima, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.
noitavoima (Finnish): sorcery
Ancestry of “noitavoima”, step by step
noitavoima traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish voima
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | voima | power, strength, force, might; force; power |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | voima | power, strength, force, might |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ma | Forms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the... |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |
via Finnish noita
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | noita | A witch; Partitive plural form of nuo |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | noita | witch |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | nojta | — |