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Where does “nimetä” come from?

nimetä (Finnish) comes from Finnish -tä, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä.

nimetä (Finnish): to name, mention by name; to nominate; to...

Definitions

  1. to name, mention by name; to nominate; to...

Ancestry of “nimetä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-täFront vowel variant of -ta
2Proto-Finnic-ta—
3Proto-Uralic-tä

Words derived from “nimetä”

  • nimentö
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