Where does “miss” come from?

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

miss (Ingrian): inessive singular of mikä

Definitions

  1. inessive singular of mikä

Ancestry of “miss”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianmikäwhat?; which, that; which? what?
2Proto-Finnicmiwhat
3Proto-Uralicmiwhat

Words derived from “miss”

Every word from Proto-Uralic mi →Every word from Proto-Finnic mi →Every word from Ingrian mikä →