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Where does “parempi” come from?

parempi (Finnish) comes from Proto-Finnic parempa, from Proto-Finnic paras, from Proto-Finno-Permic para — good.

parempi (Finnish): comparative degree of hyvä

Definitions

  1. comparative degree of hyvä

Ancestry of “parempi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicparempabetter
2Proto-Finnicparassuperlative degree of *hüvä
3Proto-Finno-Permicparagood

Words derived from “parempi”

  • paremmuus
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