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Where does “kolm” come from?
kolm (Estonian) comes from Finnish kolmi, from Proto-Uralic *kolme.
kolm
(Estonian): three
Definitions
three
Ancestry of “kolm”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Finnish
kolmi
tri-
2
Proto-Uralic
*kolme
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Words derived from “kolm”
kolmnurk
kolmik
kolmainsus
kolmekuningapäev
kolmandik
kolmnurkne
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