Where does “meikä” come from?
meikä (Finnish) comes from Finnish meikäläinen, from Finnish me, from Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic me — we.
Ancestry of “meikä”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | meikäläinen | one of us; I; used sometimes in speech to express... |
| 2 | Finnish | me | we |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | *mek | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | me | we |