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Where does “havainto-opetus” come from?

havainto-opetus (Finnish) comes from Finnish havainto, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

havainto-opetus (Finnish): object lesson

Definitions

  1. object lesson

Ancestry of “havainto-opetus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhavaintoperception; observation
2Finnish-ntö—
3Finnish-möFront vowel variant of -mo
4Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
5Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
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