Where does “torkahtaa” come from?

torkahtaa (Finnish) comes from Finnish torkkua, from Finnish torkku, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

torkahtaa (Finnish): to doze off, to doze, to snooze briefly

Definitions

  1. to doze off, to doze, to snooze briefly

Ancestry of “torkahtaa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtorkkuato snooze, doze, drowse
2Finnishtorkkunap, snooze; sleepy
3Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
4Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

Words derived from “torkahtaa

Every word from Proto-Finnic -uEvery word from Finnish -uEvery word from Finnish torkkua