Where does “kives” come from?

kives (Finnish) comes from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.

kives (Finnish): testicle; A stone inside birch bark, used as...

Definitions

  1. testicle; A stone inside birch bark, used as...

Ancestry of “kives”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-sForms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...
2Proto-Finnic-nciForms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
3Proto-Uralic-mte—

Words derived from “kives”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -mte →