Where does “nelje” come from?

nelje (Kven) comes from Finnish neljä, from Proto-Finnic neljä, from Proto-Uralic neljä — four.

nelje (Kven): four

Definitions

  1. four

Ancestry of “nelje”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishneljäfour
2Proto-Finnicneljäfour
3Proto-Uralicneljäfour
Every word from Proto-Uralic neljä →Every word from Proto-Finnic neljä →Every word from Finnish neljä →