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Where does “-tön” come from?

-tön (Finnish) comes from Proto-Finnic -t'oin, from Proto-Uralic -ktama.

-tön (Finnish): Front vowel variant of -ton

Definitions

  1. Front vowel variant of -ton

Ancestry of “-tön”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnic-t'oin-less
2Proto-Uralic-ktama—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ktama →