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Where does “liipaisinherkkä” come from?

liipaisinherkkä (Finnish) comes from Finnish liipaisin, from Finnish -in, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *-in, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

liipaisinherkkä (Finnish): trigger-happy

Definitions

  1. trigger-happy

Ancestry of “liipaisinherkkä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishliipaisintrigger; First-person singular indicative past...
2Finnish-inSuffix variant for the illative singular, see...
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*-in—
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →