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Where does “-oa” come from?

-oa (Finnish) comes from Proto-Finnic -odak, from Proto-Uralic -w-.

-oa (Finnish): Front vowel variant of -oa

Definitions

  1. Front vowel variant of -oa

Ancestry of “-oa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnic-odak—
2Proto-Uralic-w-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -w- →