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Where does “mets” come from?
mets (Estonian) comes from Proto-Finnic *meccä, from Proto-Baltic medjas.
mets
(Estonian): forest
Definitions
forest
Ancestry of “mets”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Finnic
*meccä
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2
Proto-Baltic
medjas
—
Words derived from “mets”
metssiga
metsik
vihmamets
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