Where does “nukkaus” come from?

nukkaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish nukata, from Finnish -ätä, from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

nukkaus (Finnish): pilling

Definitions

  1. pilling

Ancestry of “nukkaus”, step by step

nukkaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish nukata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnukatato pill
2Finnish-ätäFront vowel variant of -ata
3Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish us

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishus-ing
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä →Every word from Finnish -ätä →Every word from Finnish -tä →