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Where does “toivomus” come from?

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

toivomus (Finnish): wish

Definitions

  1. wish

Ancestry of “toivomus”, 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 “toivomus”

  • toivomusluu
  • toivomuskaivo
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