Where does “peamiselt” come from?

peamiselt (Estonian) comes from Estonian peamine, from Estonian -mine, from Proto-Finnic -minen, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

peamiselt (Estonian): mainly

Definitions

  1. mainly

Ancestry of “peamiselt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianpeaminechief, main, major, principal
2Estonian-minederives adjectives from nouns or prefixes; forms...
3Proto-Finnic-minenForms nouns from verbs, indicating the action of...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Estonian -mine →