Where does “biigot” come from?
biigot (Northern Sami) comes from Finnish piikoa, from Finnish -öä, from Proto-Finnic -odak, from Proto-Uralic -w-.
biigot (Northern Sami): to work as a maid
Ancestry of “biigot”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | piikoa | To work as a domestic |
| 2 | Finnish | -öä | Front vowel variant of -oa |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -odak | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -w- | — |