Where does “yksityiselämä” come from?
yksityiselämä (Finnish) comes from Finnish yksityinen, from Finnish -tuinen, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
yksityiselämä (Finnish): private life
Definitions
- private life
Ancestry of “yksityiselämä”, step by step
yksityiselämä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish yksityinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | yksityinen | private; personal; single, particular, specific |
| 2 | Finnish | -tuinen | Variant of -inen |
| 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 |