Where does “toiseus” come from?

toiseus (Finnish) comes from Finnish toinen, from Proto-Finnic toinen, from Proto-Finnic too, from Proto-Uralic to — that.

toiseus (Finnish): otherness, differentness

Definitions

  1. otherness, differentness

Ancestry of “toiseus”, step by step

toiseus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish toinen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtoinensecond; other, another; the others, other ones
2Proto-Finnictoinensecond; other
3Proto-Finnictoothat over there, yonder distal?
4Proto-Uralictothat

via Finnish uus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishuusAlternative form of uusi
Every word from Proto-Uralic to →Every word from Proto-Finnic too →Every word from Proto-Finnic toinen →