Where does “nelistään” come from?

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

nelistään (Finnish): with (exactly) four people (doing something together)

Definitions

  1. with (exactly) four people (doing something together)

Ancestry of “nelistään”, step by step

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