Where does “ilveily” come from?

ilveily (Finnish) comes from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

ilveily (Finnish): anticking, larking, pranking

Definitions

  1. anticking, larking, pranking

Ancestry of “ilveily”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
2Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finnic -uEvery word from Finnish -u