Where does “nisu” come from?

nisu (Northern Sami) comes from Finnish nisu, from Proto-Finnic nisu — wheat.

nisu (Northern Sami): woman; wheat

Definitions

  1. woman; wheat

Ancestry of “nisu”, step by step

nisu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish nisu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnisuwheat; something baked of wheat, particularly...
2Proto-Finnicnisuwheat

via Proto-Samic nisōn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Samicnisōnwoman

Words derived from “nisu”

Every word from Proto-Finnic nisu →Every word from Finnish nisu →