Where does “suoranaan” come from?

suoranaan (Finnish) comes from Finnish -än, from Finnish -hän, from Finnish hän, from Proto-Finnic hän — he, she; it, for inanimate objects.

suoranaan (Finnish): in a straight stream or flow

Definitions

  1. in a straight stream or flow

Ancestry of “suoranaan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-änFront vowel variant of -an
2Finnish-hänAlternative form of -hVn
3Finnishhänhe, she, one, they
4Proto-Finnichänhe, she; it, for inanimate objects
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