Where does “kauiten” come from?

kauiten (Finnish) comes from Finnish -iten, from Finnish -ten, from Proto-Finnic -ten.

kauiten (Finnish): (for) the longest

Definitions

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Ancestry of “kauiten”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-itenForms superlative adverbs from some stems, mostly...
2Finnish-tenForms causative adverbs
3Proto-Finnic-ten—
Every word from Proto-Finnic -ten →Every word from Finnish -ten →Every word from Finnish -iten →