Where does “pöpinä” come from?

pöpinä (Finnish) comes from Finnish pöpistä, from Finnish pölistä, from Finnish pöly, from Proto-Finnic pölü.

pöpinä (Finnish): twaddle, nonsense, rubbish empty or silly idle talk or writing

Definitions

  1. twaddle, nonsense, rubbish empty or silly idle talk or writing

Ancestry of “pöpinä”, step by step

pöpinä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pöpistä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpöpistäto twaddle, prattle; Elative singular form of...
2Finnishpölistäto shed dust; to babble, prattle; jabber
3Finnishpölydust
4Proto-Finnicpölü—

via Finnish nä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnä—
Every word from Proto-Finnic pölü →Every word from Finnish pöly →Every word from Finnish pölistä →