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Where does “ilmeillä” come from?

ilmeillä (Finnish) comes from Finnish ilme, from Finnish ilm-, from Finnish ilmetä, from Finnish ilmi, from Finnish Ilma, from Finnish -ri, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i — oblique plural.

ilmeillä (Finnish): Adessive plural form of ilme; To make faces

Definitions

  1. Adessive plural form of ilme; To make faces

Ancestry of “ilmeillä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishilmefacial expression, look, mien, appearance,...
2Finnishilm-—
3FinnishilmetäTo appear, turn out; to become apparent; to arise
4Finnishilmipublic, known, to the daylight, to the open;...
5FinnishIlma—
6Finnish-riUsed to create names of occupations from nouns or...
7Finnish-raForms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal...
8Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
9Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
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