Where does “selkämys” come from?

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

selkämys (Finnish): back, spine, backside of clothing or objects

Definitions

  1. back, spine, backside of clothing or objects

Ancestry of “selkämys”, 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

Words derived from “selkämys

Every word from Proto-Uralic -maEvery word from Proto-Finnic -maEvery word from Finnish -mus