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Where does “kohtalo” come from?

kohtalo (Finnish) comes from Finnish -lo, from Finnish -la-i, from Finnish -la, from Proto-Finnic -la — locative suffix.

kohtalo (Finnish): destiny, fate

Definitions

  1. destiny, fate

Ancestry of “kohtalo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-loForms various nouns
2Finnish-la-i—
3Finnish-laForms nouns that signify a place, such as an...
4Proto-Finnic-lalocative suffix

Words derived from “kohtalo”

  • kohtalotar
  • kohtalokkaasti
  • kohtalonhetki
  • kohtalokas
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