Where does “Tuppia” come from?
Tuppia (Greenlandic) comes from Ingrian -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.
Ancestry of “Tuppia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ingrian | -ia | — |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | -idak | applicative suffix |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | -j- | — |