Where does “neljäkymmentävuotias” come from?

neljäkymmentävuotias (Finnish) comes from Finnish -vuotias, from Finnish vuosi, from Proto-Finnic vooci, from Proto-Finnic oote, from Proto-Uralic ëde — year.

neljäkymmentävuotias (Finnish): forty-year-old

Definitions

  1. forty-year-old

Ancestry of “neljäkymmentävuotias”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-vuotias-year-old, years old
2Finnishvuosiyear
3Proto-Finnicvoociyear
4Proto-Finnicoote—
5Proto-Uralicëdeyear
Every word from Proto-Uralic ëde →Every word from Proto-Finnic oote →Every word from Proto-Finnic vooci →