Where does “sotkuisesti” come from?

sotkuisesti (Finnish) comes from Finnish sotkuinen, from Finnish sotku, from Finnish sotkea, from Proto-Finnic sotkedak — to knead.

sotkuisesti (Finnish): messily

Definitions

  1. messily

Ancestry of “sotkuisesti”, step by step

sotkuisesti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sotkuinen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotkuinenmessy
2Finnishsotkumess; tangle; snafu
3Finnishsotkeato mess, to dirty; to involve, to drag into; to...
4Proto-Finnicsotkedakto knead

via Finnish sti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsti—
Every word from Proto-Finnic sotkedak →Every word from Finnish sotkea →Every word from Finnish sotku →