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Where does “kaikkinielevä” come from?

kaikkinielevä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaikki, from Finnish -ti, from Proto-Finnic -t'ik — caritive suffix.

kaikkinielevä (Finnish): all-consuming

Definitions

  1. all-consuming

Ancestry of “kaikkinielevä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaikkieverything; everyone, everybody; all-, omni-
2Finnish-tiForms caritive adverbs; Forms adverbs of manner
3Proto-Finnic-t'ikcaritive suffix
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