Where does “meisti” come from?

meisti (Finnish) comes from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

meisti (Finnish): punch device for creating holes in material: hard metal rod with a shaped tip at one end and a blunt butt end at the other, which is usually struck by a hammer; used to indent or create holes through a surface

Definitions

  1. punch device for creating holes in material: hard metal rod with a shaped tip at one end and a blunt butt end at the other, which is usually struck by a hammer; used to indent or create holes through a surface

Ancestry of “meisti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
2Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

Words derived from “meisti”

Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →Every word from Finnish -i →