Where does “-uli” come from?

-uli (Finnish) comes from Finnish -li, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

-uli (Finnish): Forms diminutive nouns

Definitions

  1. Forms diminutive nouns

Ancestry of “-uli”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-liForms diminutive nouns
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

Words derived from “-uli”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →