Where does “yöhikoilu” come from?
yöhikoilu (Finnish) comes from Finnish hikoilu, from Finnish hikoilla, from Finnish hiota, from Finnish hiottaa, from Finnish hioa, from Proto-Finnic hijodak, from Proto-Finno-Ugric šija-.
yöhikoilu (Finnish): night sweats
Definitions
- night sweats
Ancestry of “yöhikoilu”, step by step
yöhikoilu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish hikoilu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hikoilu | perspiration, sweating |
| 2 | Finnish | hikoilla | to sweat, perspire; Adessive plural form of... |
| 3 | Finnish | hiota | to sweat; Indicative present connegative form of... |
| 4 | Finnish | hiottaa | to make sweat; to have ground, sanded, honed,... |
| 5 | Finnish | hioa | to grind, whet, hone; to grind, sharpen; to sand |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | hijodak | to grind, to hone, to whet |
| 7 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | šija- | — |