Where does “elintärkeä” come from?

elintärkeä (Finnish) comes from Finnish elin-, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

elintärkeä (Finnish): vital, essential, indispensable, crucial

Definitions

  1. vital, essential, indispensable, crucial

Ancestry of “elintärkeä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishelin-living, life
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
4Proto-Uralic-ma—

Words derived from “elintärkeä”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Finnish -in →Every word from Finnish elin- →