Where does “hankaluus” come from?

hankaluus (Finnish) comes from Finnish hankala, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

hankaluus (Finnish): difficulty, complexity; inconvenience

Definitions

  1. difficulty, complexity; inconvenience

Ancestry of “hankaluus”, step by step

hankaluus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish hankala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhankaladifficult, challenging; cumbersome, troublesome,...
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish uus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishuusAlternative form of uusi

Words derived from “hankaluus”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →