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Where does “Satu” come from?

Satu (Finnish) comes from Finnish satu, from Finnish sattua, from Proto-Finnic sattudak.

Ancestry of “Satu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsatufairy tale; fable; tale
2Finnishsattuato hurt , be sore; to happen, to be , occur, come...
3Proto-Finnicsattudak—
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