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Where does “niin kutsuttu” come from?

niin kutsuttu (Finnish) comes from Finnish niin, from Finnish ne, from Proto-Finnic nek, from Proto-Uralic ne.

niin kutsuttu (Finnish): so-called

Definitions

  1. so-called

Ancestry of “niin kutsuttu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishniinso, then, in that case; so, to this or that...
2Finnishnethey, those; they; those, the
3Proto-Finnicnek—
4Proto-Uralicne—
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