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Where does “mikä” come from?

mikä (Ingrian) comes from Proto-Finnic mi, from Proto-Uralic mi — what.

mikä (Ingrian): what?; which, that; which? what?

Definitions

  1. what?; which, that; which? what?

Ancestry of “mikä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicmiwhat
2Proto-Uralicmiwhat

Words derived from “mikä”

  • miz
  • miss
Every word from Proto-Uralic mi →