Where does “ruudikas” come from?

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

ruudikas (Finnish): powerful

Definitions

  1. powerful

Ancestry of “ruudikas”, step by step

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