Where does “-uma” come from?

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

-uma (Finnish): Variant of -ma; forms passive action/result nouns...

Definitions

  1. Variant of -ma; forms passive action/result nouns...

Ancestry of “-uma”, 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 “-uma”

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