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Where does “hankaus” come from?

hankaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish hangata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

hankaus (Finnish): rubbing

Definitions

  1. rubbing

Ancestry of “hankaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhangatato rub; "~ vastaan:" to resist
2Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
3Proto-Finnic-ta—
4Proto-Uralic-tä

Words derived from “hankaus”

  • hankauskohta
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