Where does “vaistota” come from?

vaistota (Finnish) comes from Finnish Väistö, from Finnish aisti, from Finnish haisti, from Finnish haistaa, from Proto-Finnic haistadak — to smell.

vaistota (Finnish): to sense/know instinctively/intuitively, intuit

Definitions

  1. to sense/know instinctively/intuitively, intuit

Ancestry of “vaistota”, step by step

vaistota traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Väistö

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishVäistö—
2Finnishaistisense; Third-person singular indicative past form...
3Finnishhaistiolfaction; the sense of smell
4Finnishhaistaato sniff, smell; to scent, smell/nose out, get...
5Proto-Finnichaistadakto smell

via Finnish tä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtäwhat
2FinnishmitäPartitive singular form of mikä; Partitive...
Every word from Proto-Finnic haistadak →Every word from Finnish haistaa →Every word from Finnish haisti →