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Where does “alja” come from?

alja (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian alj, from Hungarian ál, from Proto-Uralic ëla — below.

alja (Hungarian): third-person singular single-possession...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular single-possession...

Ancestry of “alja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianaljbottom, lower part; skirt
2Hungarianálfalse, fake, sham, phoney, make-believe, bogus,...
3Proto-Uralicëlabelow
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