Where does “notkutella” come from?

notkutella (Finnish) comes from Finnish notkuttaa, from Finnish notkua, from Finnish -ua, from Proto-Finnic -üdäk — Forms mainly passive or anticausative verbs.

notkutella (Finnish): to make sway repeatedly

Definitions

  1. to make sway repeatedly

Ancestry of “notkutella”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishnotkuttaaTo make sway; To bend
2Finnishnotkuato sag, bend; to mess around, to fool around, to...
3Finnish-uaForms stative or inchoative intransitive verbs...
4Proto-Finnic-üdäkForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
Every word from Proto-Finnic -üdäk →Every word from Finnish -ua →Every word from Finnish notkua →