Where does “lähes” come from?

lähes (Finnish) comes from Finnish -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.

lähes (Finnish): almost, nearly, close to

Definitions

  1. almost, nearly, close to

Ancestry of “lähes”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-sForms ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers, or...
2Proto-Finnic-nciForms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
3Proto-Uralic-mte—

Words derived from “lähes”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -mte →