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Where does “maisemahissi” come from?

maisemahissi (Finnish) comes from Finnish maisema, from Finnish mainen, from Finnish maa, from Proto-Finnic maa, from Proto-Uralic mëxe, from Proto-Indo-European meǵh₂s — great.

maisemahissi (Finnish): scenic elevator

Definitions

  1. scenic elevator

Ancestry of “maisemahissi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmaisemalandscape, view
2Finnishmainenworldly
3Finnishmaaearth; soil; land
4Proto-Finnicmaaearth, ground, soil; land, country
5Proto-Uralicmëxeearth, land
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeǵh₂sgreat
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