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Where does “onnekas” come from?

onnekas (Finnish) comes from Finnish -käs, from Proto-Finnic -k'as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

onnekas (Finnish): lucky, fortunate

Definitions

  1. lucky, fortunate

Ancestry of “onnekas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-käsFront vowel variant of -kas
2Proto-Finnic-k'asForms adjectives from nouns, indicating a...
3Proto-Finnic-s—
4Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

Words derived from “onnekas”

  • onnekkaasti
  • onnekkuus
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