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Where does “kaksoisolento” come from?

kaksoisolento (Finnish) comes from Finnish olento, from Finnish -ntö, from Finnish -mö, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

kaksoisolento (Finnish): double, doppelganger, lookalike; evil twin

Definitions

  1. double, doppelganger, lookalike; evil twin

Ancestry of “kaksoisolento”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnisholentobeing, creature; essive
2Finnish-ntö—
3Finnish-möFront vowel variant of -mo
4Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
5Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
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