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Where does “maailmallisuus” come from?

maailmallisuus (Finnish) comes from Finnish maailmallinen, from Finnish maailma, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *maailma, from Finnish Ilma, from Finnish -ri, from Finnish -ra, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

maailmallisuus (Finnish): worldliness

Definitions

  1. worldliness

Ancestry of “maailmallisuus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaailmallinenworldly
2Finnishmaailmathe Earth; a world; a celestial body
3Proto-Finno-Ugric*maailma—
4FinnishIlma—
5Finnish-riUsed to create names of occupations from nouns or...
6Finnish-raForms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal...
7Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
8Proto-Uralic-joblique plural
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