Where does “lihas” come from?

lihas (Estonian) comes from Finnish lihas, from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.

lihas (Estonian): muscle; inessive singular of liha

Definitions

  1. muscle; inessive singular of liha

Ancestry of “lihas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlihasmuscle
2Finnish-sForms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...
3Proto-Finnic-nciForms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
4Proto-Uralic-mte—

Words derived from “lihas”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -mte →Every word from Finnish -s →Every word from Proto-Finnic -nci →