Where does “nelikkö” come from?

nelikkö (Finnish) comes from Finnish neli, from Finnish neljä, from Proto-Finnic neljä, from Proto-Uralic neljä — four.

nelikkö (Finnish): quartet, group of four

Definitions

  1. quartet, group of four

Ancestry of “nelikkö”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishneliA four-beat gait, the gallop
2Finnishneljäfour
3Proto-Finnicneljäfour
4Proto-Uralicneljäfour

Words derived from “nelikkö”

Every word from Proto-Uralic neljä →Every word from Proto-Finnic neljä →Every word from Finnish neljä →