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Where does “nelilö” come from?

nelilö (Finnish) comes from Finnish -lö, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

nelilö (Finnish): block of four

Definitions

  1. block of four

Ancestry of “nelilö”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-löFront vowel variant of -lo
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-s—
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →