Where does “asuinkaveri” come from?

asuinkaveri (Finnish) comes from Finnish asuin-, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

asuinkaveri (Finnish): roommate a person with whom one shares a room, such as at university

Definitions

  1. roommate a person with whom one shares a room, such as at university

Ancestry of “asuinkaveri”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasuin-residential
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Finnish -in →Every word from Finnish asuin- →