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Where does “kaksoiselämä” come from?

kaksoiselämä (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaksois-, from Finnish kaksi, from Proto-Finnic kakci, from Proto-Uralic *kakta.

kaksoiselämä (Finnish): double life

Definitions

  1. double life

Ancestry of “kaksoiselämä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaksois-double, binary, twin
2Finnishkaksitwo
3Proto-Finnickakcitwo
4Proto-Uralic*kakta—
Every word from Proto-Uralic *kakta →