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Where does “neuvokas” come from?

neuvokas (Finnish) comes from Finnish -käs, from Proto-Finnic -k'as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

neuvokas (Finnish): resourceful, inventive, crafty

Definitions

  1. resourceful, inventive, crafty

Ancestry of “neuvokas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-käsFront vowel variant of -kas
2Proto-Finnic-k'asForms adjectives from nouns, indicating a...
3Proto-Finnic-s—
4Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

Words derived from “neuvokas”

  • neuvokkuus
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