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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

Definitions

  1. to work as a maid

Ancestry of “biigot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpiikoaTo work as a domestic
2Finnish-öäFront vowel variant of -oa
3Proto-Finnic-odak—
4Proto-Uralic-w-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -w- →