Where does “meikämanne” come from?
meikämanne (Finnish) comes from Finnish meikä, from Finnish meikäläinen, from Finnish me, from Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic me — we.
Ancestry of “meikämanne”, step by step
meikämanne traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish meikä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | meikä | — |
| 2 | Finnish | meikäläinen | one of us; I; used sometimes in speech to express... |
| 3 | Finnish | me | we |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | *mek | — |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | me | we |
via Finnish manne
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | manne | A Romani man, Gypsy |
| 2 | Finnish | Immanuel | Immanuel |
| 3 | Hebrew | עִמָּנוּאֵל | — |
| 4 | Hebrew | עִמָּנוּ אֵל | God is with us |