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Where does “nykyaikainen” come from?

nykyaikainen (Finnish) comes from Finnish nykyaika, from Finnish aika, from Finnish -isin, from Hungarian isi, from Hungarian -i, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë, from Proto-West Germanic -jā — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

nykyaikainen (Finnish): modern, contemporary, current

Definitions

  1. modern, contemporary, current

Ancestry of “nykyaikainen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnykyaikamodern era, modern period, modern times
2Finnishaikatime; time, moment; appointment
3Finnish-isinThe case suffix denoting temporal distributive;...
4Hungarianisischool
5Hungarian-iAdded to a proper noun, noun or postposition to...
6Hungarian-éUsed to form the lative, expressing the direction...
7Albanian-ë-ing, -ion
8Proto-West Germanic-jā—
9Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
10Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

Words derived from “nykyaikainen”

  • nykyaikaisuus
  • nykyaikaistaa
  • nykyaikaisesti
  • nykyaikaistuminen
  • nykyaikaistua
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