Where does “het” come from?

het (Meänkieli) comes from Finnish he, from Finnish -t, from Proto-Finnic -t, from Proto-Uralic -t.

het (Meänkieli): they third-person plural personal pronoun

Definitions

  1. they third-person plural personal pronoun

Ancestry of “het”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhethey; he
2Finnish-tForms the nominative plural; Forms the accusative...
3Proto-Finnic-tEnding of nominative and accusative plural
4Proto-Uralic-t—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -t →Every word from Finnish -t →Every word from Finnish he →