Where does “nelitahokas” come from?
nelitahokas (Finnish) comes from Finnish -tahokas, from Finnish -käs, from Proto-Finnic -k'as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.
nelitahokas (Finnish): tetrahedron
Ancestry of “nelitahokas”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | -tahokas | — |
| 2 | Finnish | -käs | Front vowel variant of -kas |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -k'as | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating a... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -s | — |
| 5 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | -s | — |