Where does “yököttää” come from?

yököttää (Finnish) comes from Finnish ottaa, from Proto-Finnic vottadak, from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- — to wind, to turn.

yököttää (Finnish): to cause to feel sick to cause to have an urge to vomit

Definitions

  1. to cause to feel sick to cause to have an urge to vomit

Ancestry of “yököttää”, step by step

yököttää traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ottaa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishottaato take; to take, ingest or drink; to deprive of,...
2Proto-Finnicvottadakto take
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn

via Finnish yökätä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishyökätäto gag, retch

Words derived from “yököttää”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wendʰ- →Every word from Proto-Finnic vottadak →Every word from Finnish ottaa →