Where does “yhdeksänkymmenvuotias” come from?

yhdeksänkymmenvuotias (Finnish) comes from Finnish yhdeksän, from Proto-Finnic ükteksä, from Proto-Finnic ükci, from Proto-Uralic ükte — one.

yhdeksänkymmenvuotias (Finnish): ninety-year-old

Definitions

  1. ninety-year-old

Ancestry of “yhdeksänkymmenvuotias”, step by step

yhdeksänkymmenvuotias traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish yhdeksän

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishyhdeksännine
2Proto-Finnicükteksänine
3Proto-Finnicükcione
4Proto-Uralicükteone

via Finnish kymmen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkymmenten; decade
2Proto-Finnickümmenten; decade, group of ten
Every word from Proto-Uralic ükte →Every word from Proto-Finnic ükci →Every word from Proto-Finnic ükteksä →