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Where does “hyljeksiä” come from?

hyljeksiä (Finnish) comes from Finnish hylätä, from Proto-Finnic hülgäit'äk.

hyljeksiä (Finnish): to spurn

Definitions

  1. to spurn

Ancestry of “hyljeksiä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhylätäto reject, turn down, discard; to refuse, turn...
2Proto-Finnichülgäit'äk—
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