Where does “-s” come from?

-s (Finnish) comes from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.

-s (Finnish): Forms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...

Definitions

  1. Forms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...

Ancestry of “-s”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnic-nciForms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
2Proto-Uralic-mte

Words derived from “-s

Every word from Proto-Uralic -mte