Where does “niski” come from?

niski (Northern Sami) comes from Finnish niska, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

niski (Northern Sami): nape; the place from which rapids in a river...

Definitions

  1. nape; the place from which rapids in a river...

Ancestry of “niski”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishniskanape, the back of the neck; a load bearing...
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →