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Where does “tasanko” come from?

tasanko (Finnish) comes from Finnish -nkö, from Finnish -nka-i, from Finnish -i, from Proto-Uralic -j — oblique plural.

tasanko (Finnish): plain, flatland; tasan + the suffix -ko

Definitions

  1. plain, flatland; tasan + the suffix -ko

Ancestry of “tasanko”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-nköFront vowel variant of -nko
2Finnish-nka-i—
3Finnish-iA nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used...
4Proto-Uralic-joblique plural

Words derived from “tasanko”

  • tulvatasanko
  • ylätasanko
  • suolatasanko
Every word from Proto-Uralic -j →