Where does “mestaus” come from?

mestaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish -us, from Proto-Finnic -us — Forms some nouns from nominal stems.

mestaus (Finnish): decapitation, beheading

Definitions

  1. decapitation, beheading

Ancestry of “mestaus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-usForms nouns from verbs, describing an action or...
2Proto-Finnic-usForms some nouns from nominal stems

Words derived from “mestaus”

Every word from Proto-Finnic -us →Every word from Finnish -us →