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Where does “kolme” come from?
kolme (Karelian) comes from Finnish kolmi, from Proto-Uralic *kolme.
kolme
(Karelian): three
Definitions
three
Ancestry of “kolme”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Finnish
kolmi
tri-
2
Proto-Uralic
*kolme
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