Where does “kiireesti” come from?

kiireesti (Finnish) comes from Finnish kiire, from Proto-Finnic kiireh — hurry, haste.

kiireesti (Finnish): hastily

Definitions

  1. hastily

Ancestry of “kiireesti”, step by step

kiireesti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kiire

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkiirehurry, haste; rush; something that causes one to...
2Proto-Finnickiirehhurry, haste

via Finnish sti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsti—
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