Where does “kirjomus” come from?

kirjomus (Finnish) comes from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

kirjomus (Finnish): embroidery; something embroidered

Definitions

  1. embroidery; something embroidered

Ancestry of “kirjomus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
2Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
3Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Finnish -mus →
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