Where does “paikkuuttaa” come from?
paikkuuttaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish uuttaa, from Finnish uu, from Latin U, from Latin V, from Etruscan ? — u.
Ancestry of “paikkuuttaa”, step by step
paikkuuttaa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish uuttaa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | uuttaa | to extract; Third-person singular indicative... |
| 2 | Finnish | uu | The name of the Latin-script letter U; hole, nest |
| 3 | Latin | U | — |
| 4 | Latin | V | ve |
| 5 | Etruscan | ? | u |
via Finnish paikata
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | paikata | To patch, mend, sew; To fix, repair; To put in a... |
| 2 | Finnish | paikka | place, location, spot, site; area, region,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *paikka | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | spaikǭ | spoke |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | spēy- | to stretch; thrive; succeed |