Where does “täinen” come from?

täinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish täi, from Finnish tahi, from Finnish tahtoa, from Proto-Finnic tahtoidak — to want.

täinen (Finnish): lousy infested with lice

Definitions

  1. lousy infested with lice

Ancestry of “täinen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtäilouse; A gold nugget between 2 mm to 4 mm by the...
2Finnishtahior
3Finnishtahtoato want; to tend; Partitive singular form of...
4Proto-Finnictahtoidakto want

Words derived from “täinen”

Every word from Proto-Finnic tahtoidak →Every word from Finnish tahtoa →Every word from Finnish tahi →