Where does “notkutella” come from?
notkutella (Finnish) comes from Finnish notkuttaa, from Finnish notkua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk.
notkutella (Finnish): to make sway repeatedly
Ancestry of “notkutella”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | notkuttaa | To make sway; To bend |
| 2 | Finnish | notkua | to sag, bend; to mess around, to fool around, to... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ua | Forms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -üdäk | — |