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Where does “uniasu” come from?

uniasu (Finnish) comes from Finnish asu, from Finnish -u, from Proto-Finnic -u.

uniasu (Finnish): nightclothes, nighwear

Definitions

  1. nightclothes, nighwear

Ancestry of “uniasu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishasuattire, dress, suit, raiment; form, figure,...
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-u—
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