Where does “mees” come from?

mees (Ingrian) comes from Proto-Finnic mees, from Proto-Finnic meexes.

mees (Ingrian): man

Definitions

  1. man

Ancestry of “mees”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicmeesman, male; husband
2Proto-Finnicmeexes

Words derived from “mees

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