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Where does “nukkavieru” come from?

nukkavieru (Finnish) comes from Finnish vieru, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u.

nukkavieru (Finnish): shabby

Definitions

  1. shabby

Ancestry of “nukkavieru”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvieruslope, hillside
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-u—
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