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Where does “kolmioepäyhtälö” come from?

kolmioepäyhtälö (Finnish) comes from Finnish epäyhtälö, from Finnish yhtälö, from Finnish -lö, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

kolmioepäyhtälö (Finnish): triangle inequality

Definitions

  1. triangle inequality

Ancestry of “kolmioepäyhtälö”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishepäyhtälöinequality
2Finnishyhtälöequation
3Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
4Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
5Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
6Proto-Finnic-s—
7Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →