Where does “anomuskirjelmä” come from?

anomuskirjelmä (Finnish) comes from Finnish anomus, from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

anomuskirjelmä (Finnish): application letter

Definitions

  1. application letter

Ancestry of “anomuskirjelmä”, step by step

anomuskirjelmä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish anomus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishanomusan application, a plea, a requisition
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma

via Finnish kirjelmä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkirjelmäwrit
2Finnishkirjeletter
3Finnishkirjabook; quire
4Proto-Finnickirjadecoration, carving, pattern
Every word from Proto-Uralic -maEvery word from Proto-Finnic -maEvery word from Finnish -mus