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Where does “kova” come from?
kova (Swedish) comes from Finnish kova, from Proto-Finnic kova — hard.
kova
(Swedish): money
Definitions
money
Ancestry of “kova”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Finnish
kova
hard; strict, harsh, severe, unfriendly, hard,...
2
Proto-Finnic
kova
hard
Words derived from “kova”
storkova
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