Where does “-mus” come from?

-mus (Finnish) comes from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

-mus (Finnish): Forms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...

Definitions

  1. Forms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...

Ancestry of “-mus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
2Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
3Proto-Uralic-ma—

Words derived from “-mus”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Finnish -ma →