Where does “pesittää” come from?

pesittää (Finnish) comes from Finnish pesä, from Proto-Finnic pesä, from Proto-Uralic pesä — nest.

pesittää (Finnish): to make (a bird) nest

Definitions

  1. to make (a bird) nest

Ancestry of “pesittää”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpesänest; den; hive
2Proto-Finnicpesänest
3Proto-Uralicpesänest
Every word from Proto-Uralic pesä →Every word from Proto-Finnic pesä →Every word from Finnish pesä →
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