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Where does “jumalaema” come from?

jumalaema (Estonian) comes from Estonian ema, from Proto-Finnic emä, from Proto-Uralic emä — mother.

Ancestry of “jumalaema”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianemamother; a reproductive female animal in a hive; a...
2Proto-Finnicemämother
3Proto-Uralicemämother
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