Where does “nelikymmenvuotinen” come from?

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

nelikymmenvuotinen (Finnish): forty-year

Definitions

  1. forty-year

Ancestry of “nelikymmenvuotinen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishneli-four, four-, tetra-, quadri-
2Finnishneljäfour
3Proto-Finnicneljäfour
4Proto-Uralicneljäfour
Every word from Proto-Uralic neljä →Every word from Proto-Finnic neljä →Every word from Finnish neljä →