Where does “pitämys” come from?

pitämys (Finnish) comes from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

pitämys (Finnish): belief something believed, particularly one that has spread through culture or word of mouth

Definitions

  1. belief something believed, particularly one that has spread through culture or word of mouth

Ancestry of “pitämys”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
2Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
3Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Finnish -mus →