Where does “romu” come from?
romu (Estonian) comes from Finnish romu, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u.
romu (Estonian): an especially old, rusted, or otherwise bad car;...
Definitions
- an especially old, rusted, or otherwise bad car;...
Ancestry of “romu”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | romu | scrap, junk, especially one that consists of... |
| 2 | Finnish | -u | Forms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -u | — |