Where does “laikkumainen” come from?

laikkumainen (Finnish) comes from Finnish laikku, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u — Forms nouns from adjectives, nouns.

laikkumainen (Finnish): patchy, patchlike, spotted, spotty, spotlike

Definitions

  1. patchy, patchlike, spotted, spotty, spotlike

Ancestry of “laikkumainen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlaikkuspot; patch; fleck
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Proto-Finnic -u →Every word from Finnish -u →Every word from Finnish laikku →
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