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Where does “alamäki” come from?

alamäki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Mäki, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

alamäki (Finnish): decline, declivity; low part of a slope; the part...

Definitions

  1. decline, declivity; low part of a slope; the part...

Ancestry of “alamäki”, step by step

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

Words derived from “alamäki”

  • alamäkiajo
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