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Where does “ongelmakohta” come from?

ongelmakohta (Finnish) comes from Finnish ongelma, from Finnish -lma, from Finnish -ella, from Proto-Finnic -eldak, from Proto-Uralic -le-.

ongelmakohta (Finnish): problem spot

Definitions

  1. problem spot

Ancestry of “ongelmakohta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishongelmaproblem, trouble; puzzle
2Finnish-lmaForms nouns, mostly from verbs
3Finnish-ellaForms . The resulting verb often describes a more...
4Proto-Finnic-eldakForms frequentative verbs
5Proto-Uralic-le-—
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