Where does “kolmistaan” come from?

kolmistaan (Finnish) comes from Finnish -staan, from Finnish -än, from Finnish -hän, from Finnish hän, from Proto-Finnic hän — he, she; it, for inanimate objects.

kolmistaan (Finnish): with (exactly) three people (doing something together)

Definitions

  1. with (exactly) three people (doing something together)

Ancestry of “kolmistaan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-staanForms some adverbs, particularly with a locative meaning
2Finnish-änFront vowel variant of -an
3Finnish-hänAlternative form of -hVn
4Finnishhänhe, she, one, they
5Proto-Finnichänhe, she; it, for inanimate objects
Every word from Proto-Finnic hän →