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Where does “pyhimystaru” come from?

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

pyhimystaru (Finnish): Saint legend

Definitions

  1. Saint legend

Ancestry of “pyhimystaru”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpyhimysA saint
2Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
3Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
4Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
5Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →