Where does “ankeasti” come from?
ankeasti (Finnish) comes from Finnish änkeä, from Finnish ängetä, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.
ankeasti (Finnish): dismally, drearily
Ancestry of “ankeasti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | änkeä | to cram; Indicative present connegative form of... |
| 2 | Finnish | ängetä | to push/shove/elbow one's way; to cut/break into... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ta | A suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ta | — |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -tä | |