Words that come from Finnish elää

400 words across 25 languages descend from Finnish elää — including keelhauling, keelhaul, kølsvin, kielhalen, kiel, Kiel, köl, koloxid.

See the etymology of elää itself →

Finnish (340)

Swedish (13)

Dutch (5)

German (5)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Estonian (3)

English (2)

Danish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Russian (2)

Low German (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Ingrian (2)

Czech (1)

Slovak (1)

Faroese (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Votic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Middle English (1)

Hindi (1)

Proto-Norse (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Words from Finnish elää — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer