Where does “kymmenkertaisesti” come from?
kymmenkertaisesti (Finnish) comes from Finnish kymmenkertainen, from Finnish -kertainen, from Finnish kerta, from Proto-Finnic kerta, from Proto-Indo-European kert-, from Proto-Turkic *keŕ-.
kymmenkertaisesti (Finnish): tenfold
Ancestry of “kymmenkertaisesti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | kymmenkertainen | tenfold; ten-time |
| 2 | Finnish | -kertainen | -tuple, -fold, "X times as big/many as", or... |
| 3 | Finnish | kerta | time, occasion; time; times; also once, when the... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | kerta | time |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kert- | times; to weave, twist together; time |
| 6 | Proto-Turkic | *keŕ- | — |