Where does “tokavika” come from?
tokavika (Finnish) comes from Finnish vika, from Finnish viimeinen, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
tokavika (Finnish): second-to-last, next-to-last, penultimate
Definitions
- second-to-last, next-to-last, penultimate
Ancestry of “tokavika”, step by step
tokavika traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish vika
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | vika | flaw, malfunction, failure, problem; fault; stain... |
| 2 | Finnish | viimeinen | last, final; nth last; dying |
| 3 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 4 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |
via Finnish toka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | toka | second |
| 2 | Finnish | toinen | second; other, another; the others, other ones |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | toinen | second; other |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | too | that over there, yonder distal? |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | to | that |