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Where does “retkeily” come from?

retkeily (Finnish) comes from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u.

retkeily (Finnish): hiking

Definitions

  1. hiking

Ancestry of “retkeily”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
2Proto-Finnic-u—

Words derived from “retkeily”

  • retkeilymaja
  • retkeilyreitti
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