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Where does “alanko” come from?

alanko (Finnish) comes from Finnish -nkö, from Finnish -nka-i, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

alanko (Finnish): lowland; First-person singular indicative present...

Definitions

  1. lowland; First-person singular indicative present...

Ancestry of “alanko”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-nköFront vowel variant of -nko
2Finnish-nka-i—
3Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
4Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

Words derived from “alanko”

  • alankomaalainen
  • Alankomaat
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