Where does “noituus” come from?

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

noituus (Finnish): witchcraft, sorcery

Definitions

  1. witchcraft, sorcery

Ancestry of “noituus”, step by step

noituus 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 uus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishuusAlternative form of uusi
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric nojta →Every word from Proto-Finnic noita →Every word from Finnish noita →