Where does “kuka tahansa” come from?
kuka tahansa (Finnish) comes from Finnish tahansa, from Finnish -nsa, from Proto-Finnic -nsak, from Proto-Uralic -nsak.
kuka tahansa (Finnish): anyone, anybody; whoever
Definitions
- anyone, anybody; whoever
Ancestry of “kuka tahansa”, step by step
kuka tahansa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tahansa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tahansa | any, -ever, either; used with interrogative... |
| 2 | Finnish | -nsa | "suffix used with" hänen " "or" heidän ",... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -nsak | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -nsak | — |
via Finnish kuka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuka | who; which one; whoever; who, when the pronoun... |