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Where does “silta” come from?

silta (Finnish) comes from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

silta (Finnish): Ablative singular form of se

Definitions

  1. Ablative singular form of se

Ancestry of “silta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
2Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
3Proto-Finnic-s—
4Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →