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Where does “ryssys” come from?
ryssys (Ingrian) comes from Ingrian -s, from Proto-Finnic -nci, from Proto-Uralic -mte.
Ancestry of “ryssys”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Ingrian
-s
Used to form the inessive case; in, inside
2
Proto-Finnic
-nci
Forms ordinal numbers from the corresponding...
3
Proto-Uralic
-mte
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