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Where does “-muš” come from?

-muš (Northern Sami) comes from Finnish -mus, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

-muš (Northern Sami): Forms nouns from verbs, indicating something that...

Definitions

  1. Forms nouns from verbs, indicating something that...

Ancestry of “-muš”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-musForms nouns from verbs. Variant of -us used with...
2Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
3Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
4Proto-Uralic-ma—

Words derived from “-muš”

  • borramuš
  • addámuš
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