Where does “-V” come from?

-V (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ä, from Proto-Finnic -dak, from Tagalog daktao — great man.

-V (Finnish): The third-person singular non-past verb marker

Definitions

  1. The third-person singular non-past verb marker

Ancestry of “-V”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-äForms the partitive case of nouns, adjectives and...
2Proto-Finnic-dakSuffix of the first infinitive
3Tagalogdaktaogreat man
Every word from Tagalog daktao →Every word from Proto-Finnic -dak →Every word from Finnish -ä →